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Afshan Ismat

Associate Professor, Biology Department Chair

Biology
Neuroscience

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Using the fruit fly as a model system to study the role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in cell migration and tissue morphogenesis, and the mechanisms of ECM restructuring by extracellular proteases.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Lhamo, T. and Ismat, A. (2015), The extracellular protease stl functions to inhibit migration of v’ch1 sensory neuron during Drosophila embryogenesis, Mechanisms of Development 137, 1-10.