Jeff Rasmussen
rasmuss@uw.eduUniversity of Washington,
Developmental Biology, Stem Cells & Aging
Genetics, Genomics & Evolution
Neuroscience
Nerve-skin interactions during development and regeneration
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Publications
A conserved morphogenetic mechanism for epidermal ensheathment of nociceptive sensory neurites.
Jiang N, Rasmussen JP, Clanton JA, Rosenberg MF, Luedke KP, Cronan MR, Parker ED, Kim HJ, Vaughan JC, Sagasti A, Parrish JZ.
eLife. 2019; 8.
- PMID:
- 30855229
Fish Scales Dictate the Pattern of Adult Skin Innervation and Vascularization.
Rasmussen JP, Vo NT, Sagasti A.
Developmental cell. 2018; 46(3):344-359.e4.
- PMID:
- 30032992
Learning to swim, again: Axon regeneration in fish.
Rasmussen JP, Sagasti A.
Experimental neurology. 2017; 287(Pt 3):318-330.
- PMID:
- 26940084
Vertebrate epidermal cells are broad-specificity phagocytes that clear sensory axon debris.
Rasmussen JP, Sack GS, Martin SM, Sagasti A.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2015; 35(2):559-70.
- PMID:
- 25589751
- PMCID:
- PMC4293411
Cell interactions and patterned intercalations shape and link epithelial tubes in C. elegans.
Rasmussen JP, Feldman JL, Reddy SS, Priess JR.
PLoS genetics. 2013; 9(9):e1003772.
- PMID:
- 24039608
- PMCID:
- PMC3764189
Laminin is required to orient epithelial polarity in the C. elegans pharynx.
Rasmussen JP, Reddy SS, Priess JR.
Development (Cambridge, England). 2012; 139(11):2050-60.
- PMID:
- 22535412
- PMCID:
- PMC3347693
The RNAseIII enzyme Drosha is critical in T cells for preventing lethal inflammatory disease.
Chong MM, Rasmussen JP, Rudensky AY, Littman DR.
The Journal of experimental medicine. 2008; 205(9):2005-17.
- PMID:
- 18725527
- PMCID:
- PMC2526196
Differentiation of regulatory Foxp3+ T cells in the thymic cortex.
Liston A, Nutsch KM, Farr AG, Lund JM, Rasmussen JP, Koni PA, Rudensky AY.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008; 105(33):11903-8.
- PMID:
- 18695219
- PMCID:
- PMC2575273
Regulatory T cell-derived interleukin-10 limits inflammation at environmental interfaces.
Rubtsov YP, Rasmussen JP, Chi EY, Fontenot J, Castelli L, Ye X, Treuting P, Siewe L, Roers A, Henderson WR Jr, Muller W, Rudensky AY.
Immunity. 2008; 28(4):546-58.
- PMID:
- 18387831
Notch signaling and morphogenesis of single-cell tubes in the C. elegans digestive tract.
Rasmussen JP, English K, Tenlen JR, Priess JR.
Developmental cell. 2008; 14(4):559-69. NIHMSID: NIHMS47416
- PMID:
- 18410731
- PMCID:
- PMC2435507
Research Summary
The Rasmussen lab uses the unique experimental advantages of zebrafish to gain cellular, molecular, and genetic insights into skin development and repair, with a particular focus on skin-neuron interactions.