International collaboration partners:
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Topic: Ontogeny of enteric nervous system. Enteric nervous progenitor/stem cell and tissue engineering in Hirschsprung disease treatment.
- Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Section Developmental Biology & Cancer Programme UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK. Topic: The role of Hedgehog signaling in patterning of gut extracellular matrix, smooth muscle and enteric nervous system formation by utilizing the Talpid mutant chicken embryo as a model.
- The Hebrew University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rehovot, Israel. Topic: The use of human and murine gut transplants as an approach for developing cell-based therapy for enteric neuropathies
- The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK. Topic: Characterization and fate map of macrophage/ dendritic cell precursor using colony MacRed (chicken stimulating factor receptor 1; CSF1R) and GFP transgenic chicken embryos.
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Department of Physiology, Germany. Topic: Role of SDF1-CXCR4 signaling during dendritic cell development and avian lymphoid organogenesis.
- Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, CNRS – UMR-9197, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Topic: Cranial neural crest cells and thymus development.
- The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia. Topic: The embryonic development of the enteric nervous system.