ZFIN Person: Bloomekatz, Joshua

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-120320-12

Bloomekatz, Joshua

Email:	jbloomekatz@ucsd.edu
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Affiliation:	Bloomekatz Lab
Address:	Division of Biological Sciences 9500 Gilman Drive, 0116 Muir Biology Building 1202 La Jolla CA 92093-0116 USA
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Shrestha, R., McCann, T., Saravanan, H., Lieberth, J., Koirala, P., Bloomekatz, J. (2023) The myocardium utilizes a platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (Pdgfra) - phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling cascade to steer towards the midline during zebrafish heart tube formation. eLIFE. 12:

Shrestha, R., Lieberth, J., Tillman, S., Natalizio, J., Bloomekatz, J. (2020) Using Zebrafish to Analyze the Genetic and Environmental Etiologies of Congenital Heart Defects. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 1236:189-223

Ren, J., Han, P., Ma, X., Farah, E.N., Bloomekatz, J., Zeng, X.I., Zhang, R., Swim, M.M., Witty, A.D., Knight, H.G., Deshpande, R., Xu, W., Yelon, D., Chen, S., Chi, N.C. (2019) Canonical Wnt5b Signaling Directs Outlying Nkx2.5+ Mesoderm into Pacemaker Cardiomyocytes. Developmental Cell. 50(6):729-743.e5

Bloomekatz, J., Singh, R., Prall, O.W., Dunn, A.C., Vaughan, M., Loo, C.S., Harvey, R.P., Yelon, D. (2017) Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signaling directs cardiomyocyte movement toward the midline during heart tube assembly. eLIFE. 6

Bloomekatz, J., Galvez-Santisteban, M., Chi, N.C. (2016) Myocardial plasticity: cardiac development, regeneration and disease. Current opinion in genetics & development. 40:120-130

Han, P., Bloomekatz, J., Ren, J., Zhang, R., Grinstein, J.D., Zhao, L., Burns, C.G., Burns, C.E., Anderson, R.M., Chi, N.C. (2016) Coordinating cardiomyocyte interactions to direct ventricular chamber morphogenesis. Nature. 534:700-4

Schumacher, J.A., Bloomekatz, J., Garavito-Aguilar, Z.V., and Yelon, D. (2013) tal1 regulates the formation of intercellular junctions and the maintenance of identity in the endocardium. Developmental Biology. 383(2):214-226

Giurumescu, C.A., Kang, S., Planchon, T.A., Betzig, E., Bloomekatz, J., Yelon, D., Cosman, P., and Chisholm, A.D. (2012) Quantitative semi-automated analysis of morphogenesis with single-cell resolution in complex embryos. Development (Cambridge, England). 139(22):4271-4279

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