Jeff-Rasmussen
Jeff Rasmussen
Associate Professor
371 LSB
(206) 616-7248
Accepting graduate students
Fields of interest
My lab uses the unique experimental advantages of zebrafish to gain cellular, molecular, and genetic insights into skin development and repair, with a particular focus on skin-neuron interactions. Please visit the lab website for more information.
B.S., Brown University (2002)
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle (2011)
Postdoc, University of California, Los Angeles (2012-2018)
Dermal Appendage-Dependent Patterning of Zebrafish Atoh1a+ Merkel Cells,
Brown, Tanya L., Horton Emma C., Craig Evan W., Goo Camille E. A., Black Erik C., Hewitt Madeleine N., Yee Nathaniel G., Fan Everett T., Raible David W., and Rasmussen Jeffrey P.
, eLife, Volume 12, p.e85800, (2023)
Zebrafish Cutaneous Injury Models Reveal That Langerhans Cells Engulf Axonal Debris in Adult Epidermis,
Peterman, Eric, Quitevis Elgene J. A., Black Erik C., Horton Emma C., Aelmore Rune L., White Ethan, Sagasti Alvaro, and Rasmussen Jeffrey P.
, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Volume 16, p.dmm049911, (2023)
A conserved morphogenetic mechanism for epidermal ensheathment of nociceptive sensory neurites,
Jiang, Nan, Rasmussen Jeffrey P., Clanton Joshua A., Rosenberg Marci F., Luedke Kory P., Cronan Mark R., Parker Edward D., Kim Hyeon-Jin, Vaughan Joshua C., Sagasti Alvaro, et al.
, Elife, Mar, Volume 8, (2019)
Vertebrate epidermal cells are broad-specificity phagocytes that clear sensory axon debris,
Rasmussen, Jeffrey P., Sack Georgeann S., Martin Seanna M., and Sagasti Alvaro
, J Neurosci, Jan, Volume 35, p.559-70, (2015)