Our research
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Intestinal stem cell biology Lab
The gastrointestinal epithelium is one of the tissues with highest self-renewing rates under steady-state conditions, thereby constituting an excellent model to better understand how adult stem cells contribute to tissue homeostasis, damage-induced regeneration processes or cancer. By combining in vivo mouse studies and ex vivo organoid technology, we are currently investigating:
– how stem cells emerge during late fetal development
– how the Lgr4/Lgr5 GPCR receptors regulate intestinal stem cell maintenance and differentiation
– regeneration processes