The role of unique precursors for the mesenchymal cells involved in injury response and the lens fibrotic disease Posterior Capsule Opacification, the role of mesenchymal cells in directing collective migration/invasion as well as processes critical to cancer cell progression and metastasis.
Janice L. Walker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
1020 Locust Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall, Suite 571
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Assistant Professor
Research & Clinical Interests
Education
PhD, Thomas Jefferson University (2000)
Most Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Distinct transcriptional regulation of the Wnt and TGFβ signaling families associated with wound healing and fibrotic outcomes to lens injury
- Artificial Intelligence in Ocular Transcriptomics: Applications of Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
- Supervised Machine-Based Learning and Computational Analysis to Reveal Unique Molecular Signatures Associated with Wound Healing and Fibrotic Outcomes to Lens Injury
- Immune Responses Induced at One Hour Post Cataract Surgery Wounding of the Chick Lens
- Changes in nascent chromatin structure regulate activation of the pro-fibrotic transcriptome and myofibroblast emergence in organ fibrosis