Soto Lab

The research in my lab bridge fields spanning disciplines from developmental biology, regenerative medicine, and computational biology. Our multidisciplinary approach explores signals and mechanisms that leads successful spinal cord regeneration, using zebrafish as animal model with regenerative capacity. My research addresses (1) The functional importance of dynamic gene expression underlying spinal cord regeneration, (2) Reactivation of neurogenesis upon spinal cord injury and (3) the mechanism by which microRNAs regulate spinal cord regeneration.