Katie Cockburn, Ph.D.

Katie Cockburn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and the Goodman Cancer Institute at McGill University and a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Dynamics of Tissue Regeneration. After obtaining a PhD in developmental biology from the University of Toronto and pursuing a postdoc in stem cell biology in the Department of Genetics at Yale University, Dr. Cockburn started her independent group at McGill in 2022.

The Cockburn lab leverages genetic mouse models, fluorescent reporters, and cutting-edge imaging technology to build a comprehensive picture of how stem cell behaviors in the skin are patterned over space and time. By longitudinally tracking the same epidermal stem cells across days and weeks in living tissue, we aim to understand how individual stem cells communicate with one another to balance differentiation and self-renewal during homeostasis, tissue growth, and environmental stress. Other ongoing projects in the lab investigate the crosstalk between epidermal stem cells and resident immune populations during wound healing and seek to understand how epidermal stem cells influence the microenvironment during the initiation of common skin cancers such as melanoma.

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