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Giangrande, Angela

Angela Giangrande, PhD, Lab Head at IGBMC, studies the molecular and epigenetic events that control cell differentiation and programming.

Drosophila CYFIP, a Molecular Link Between Actin Cytoskeleton Remodeling and Fragile X

FRAXA Research Foundation February 13, 2006May 14, 2020
Angela Giangrande, PhD, Universite Louis Pasteur, FRAXA research grant

With $130,000 in funding from FRAXA Research Foundationfrom 2004-2006, Dr. Angela Giangrande at the Universite Louis Pasteur investigated the interactions between dendrites, messenger mRNA, and the cytoskeleton in fruit flies, which are a simple yet powerful system in which multiple genes can be manipulated with relative ease.

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