<p> <h2>Sex determination and sexual differentiation in <br>
<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>.</h2>
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<p>We are interested in how genes direct animal development. We study the small, genetically tractable nematode worm, <a href="http://elegans.swmed.edu/" target="_top" title="Leon Avery's C. elegans web server"><i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i></a>, to address the questions of how cells acquire different fates, and how they form functional organs, in a developing animal. Much of our work focusses on mechanisms involved in sex determination and sexual differentiation in <i>C. elegans</i>.</p>
<p>Our lab is located in the Medical Sciences Building on the St. George Campus of the <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/">University of Toronto</a>. We are members of the <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/moleculargenetics" target="_top">Department of Molecular Genetics</a> and the <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/devbiol/" target="_top" title="Developmental Biology in Toronto">Collaborative Program in Developmental Biology</a>.</p>
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