Stanford Departments and Centers:
Developmental Biology
Person Title:
Assistant Professor
The Goins Lab aims to understand how cells make decisions. Our research focuses on how young, immature blood stem cells, with the potential to become many different cell types, choose between these cell fates. Our research elucidates how blood stem cells make these fate decisions by studying the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the decision-making process during homeostasis and in response to stress. We are interested in how intracellular signaling pathways, asymmetric or symmetric cell division, gene regulation, cell cycle control, and stress response pathways are integrated together to influence cell fate choice.
