Dr. Itzel Sifuentes-Romero
Position
- Research Scientist III
Itzel is a Research Scientist III, broadly interested in how environmental factors influence development from a molecular and phenotypic perspective. She has worked extensively on evo-devo and functional genomic questions related to sex determination in turtles, other reptiles, and fish. She is currently developing functional genomic tools in turtles.
- Zdyrski C, Vojtech G, Gessler TB, Ralston A, Sifuentes-Romero I, Kundu D, Honold, S, Wickham H, Topping N, Sahoo DK, Bista B, Tamplin J, Ospina O, Piñeyro P, Arriaga M, Galan JA, Meyerholz DK, Allenspach K, Mochel JP, and Valenzuela N. 2024. Establishment and Characterization of Turtle Liver Organoids Provides a Potential Model to Decode their Unique Adaptations. Communications Biology, 7 (1): 218. DOI 10.1038/s42003-024-05818-1.