Professor of Biology
Ph.D. 1969 (biology), M.Phil. 1967 (biology), Yale; B.A. 1964 (biology), Queens College.

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://pages.nyu.edu/~rb4/

Research Interests:

The evolution and genetics of cave fish with an emphasis on understanding the molecular and developmental bases of adaptation and the "eyeless" condition.

Affiliations:

American Society of Human Genetics; Genetics Society of America; Society for the Study of Evolution; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; National Speleological Society; Sociedad Mexicana de Exploraciones Subterraneas (SMES); Fellow, The Explorers Club.

Fellowships/Honors:

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship; SFB Fellow, Theodor Boveri Institute, Würzburg, 1994.

Publications

• A novel role for Mc1r in the parallel evolution of depigmentation in independent populations of the cavefish Astyanax mexicanus.
  PLoS Genet
  Gross JB, Borowsky R, Tabin CJ
  
  

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