ONDINE CLEAVER
BIOGRAPHY
Ondine Cleaver was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Quebec, Canada. She received her B.S. in Molecular Biology and B.A. in History at UT Austin. She also earned her graduate degree at UT Austin, focusing on the role of VEGF and VEGFR2 on endothelial progenitor patterning with Dr. Paul Krieg.
She performed her postgraduate research at Harvard, in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology with Dr. Douglas Melton. She identified vascular signals important during specification of pancreatic beta cells. Dr. Cleaver joined UT Southwestern’s Molecular Biology as faculty in late 2004 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010.
TOPIC: ‘MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CELL FATE SPECIFICATION DURING BLOOD VESSEL DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANOGENESIS’
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