Lydia M. Sorokin

This study shows that vascular basement membrane laminins regulate cerebral microvessel functional zonation by modulating endothelial and mural cell identity and vascular permeability.

This study shows that primary cilia dysfunction in Bbs8-/- mice reduces adipose stem cells and promotes fibrogenic progenitors via disrupted Hedgehog signaling, affecting adipogenesis and lipid uptake.

The paper shows that ECM-integrin adhesion enables cells to sense their position and specify ICM fate in early mouse embryos.

The paper identifies ependymal cells as the source of fractone bulbs in the SVZ and shows laminin 5 content influences neural stem cell niche physiology.