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Dr. Garside examined the role of the transcription factor SOX9 during mouse embryonic heart valve development using a number of genomic approaches. Through her analyses of genome-wide datasets on embryonic valves, she discovered that SOX9 plays a key role in regulating a critical network of transcription factors essential for heart valve formation.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD) - graduated in 2016