Biography and Research Interest

from 1/2006: Skin morphogensis, wound repair and skin cancer in mice.

until 12/2005: Floor plate formation and patterning of the ventral neural tube in zebrafish.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Veith, A., Schäfer, M., Klüver, N., Schmidt, C., Schultheis, C., Schartl, M., Winkler, C., and Volff, J. (2006) Tissue-Specific Expression of dmrt Genes in Embryos and Adults of the Platyfish Xiphophorus maculatus. Zebrafish 3(3):325-337.

Schäfer, M., and Werner, S. (2008) Cancer as an overhealing wound: an old hypothesis revisited. Nature reviews: Molecular Cell Biology 9(8):628-638.