About
Dr. Sagasti received his PhD from UCSF, and pursued post-doctoral research at the Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center. He began as a UCLA faculty member in the MCDB Department in 2005 and has been Director of the Cell and Developmental Biology home area graduate program since 2021. His lab uses a combination of imaging, molecular, and genetic approaches in zebrafish to investigate on the morphogenesis of sensory axons and skin cells during development and repair.