Running, standing, breathing, writing.     Muscle is the tissue that powers all movement.

How does muscle develop, regenerate, maintain, age, and evolve? These are the questions that drive our research. We focus on muscle stem cells because they are the source of all muscle. We focus on the muscle connective tissue because it provides the niche for muscle stem cells and is critical for muscle form and function. We study how interactions between muscle stem cells and the connective tissue orchestrate development of limb muscles and the diaphragm, regulate muscle regeneration after injury and viral infection, are the source of birth defects and fibrosis, and shape evolution of the musculoskeletal system.

Estote benigni, laborate, quaerete veritatem.