Dr Clare Baker

University position
Lecturer
Dr Clare Baker is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.
Departments
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Home page
http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/b...
Research Theme
Interests
We are investigating a broad range of questions relating to the development of neurogenic placodes and the neural crest, two embryonic cell populations in vertebrates that together build the entire peripheral nervous system. Neural crest cells also build much of the craniofacial skeleton.
Current projects include:
- the development of olfactory ensheathing glia
- the development and evolution of electroreceptors
- the role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode development
- the development and evolution of the neural crest-derived pharyngeal skeleton

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Research Focus
Keywordsdevelopment evolution neurogenic placodes neural crest chick embryo |
Clinical conditionsBirth defects |
Equipment
Immunohistochemistry
In ovo electroporation
In situ hybridisation
Microdissection
Microscopy
Collaborators
Cambridge | United KingdomAlan Burns Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/pe... Andrea Streit Web: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools... InternationalMarianne Bronner-Fraser Web: http://biology.caltech.edu/Members... Marcus Davis Web: http://science.kennesaw.edu/~mdavi1... Raj Ladher Web: http://www.cdb.riken.go.jp/en/02_r... Filippo Rijli Web: http://www.fmi.ch/researc... Eric Turner Web: http://www.uwpsychiatry.org/Results... |
Publications
2012
Gillis JA, Modrell MS, Northcutt RG, Catania KC, Luer CA, Baker CV (2012), “Electrosensory ampullary organs are derived from lateral line placodes in cartilaginous fishes.” Development Details
Modrell MS, Baker CVH (2012), “Evolution of electrosensory ampullary organs: conservation of Eya4 expression during lateral line development in jawed vertebrates.” Evol Dev 14(3): 277-285
O'Neill P, Mak SS, Fritzsch B, Ladher RK, Baker CV (2012), “The amniote paratympanic organ develops from a previously undiscovered sensory placode.” Nat Commun 3:1041 Details
Sabado V, Barraud P, Baker CV, Streit A (2012), “Specification of GnRH-1 neurons by antagonistic FGF and retinoic acid signaling.” Dev Biol 362(2):254-62 Details
2011
Gillis JA, Rawlinson KA, Bell J, Lyon WS, Baker CV, Shubin NH (2011), “Holocephalan embryos provide evidence for gill arch appendage reduction and opercular evolution in cartilaginous fishes.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(4):1507-12 Details
Modrell MS, Bemis WE, Northcutt RG, Davis MC, Baker CV (2011), “Electrosensory ampullary organs are derived from lateral line placodes in bony fishes.” Nat Commun 2:496 Details
Modrell MS, Buckley D, Baker CV (2011), “Molecular analysis of neurogenic placode development in a basal ray-finned fish.” Genesis 49(4):278-94 Details
2010
Barraud P, Seferiadis AA, Tyson LD, Zwart MF, Szabo-Rogers HL, Ruhrberg C, Liu KJ, Baker CV (2010), “Neural crest origin of olfactory ensheathing glia.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(49):21040-5 Details
2008
Baker CV (2008), “The evolution and elaboration of vertebrate neural crest cells.” Curr Opin Genet Dev 18(6):536-43 Details
Baker CV, O'Neill P, McCole RB (2008), “Lateral line, otic and epibranchial placodes: developmental and evolutionary links?” J Exp Zoolog B Mol Dev Evol 310(4):370-83 Details
Dude CM, Kuan CY, Bradshaw JR, Greene ND, Relaix F, Stark MR, Baker CV (2008), “Activation of Pax3 target genes is necessary but not sufficient for neurogenesis in the ophthalmic trigeminal placode.” Dev Biol Details
Xu H, Dude CM, Baker CV (2008), “Fine-grained fate maps for the ophthalmic and maxillomandibular trigeminal placodes in the chick embryo.” Dev Biol 317(1):174-86 Details
2007
Lassiter RN, Dude CM, Reynolds SB, Winters NI, Baker CV, Stark MR (2007), “Canonical Wnt signaling is required for ophthalmic trigeminal placode cell fate determination and maintenance.” Dev Biol 308(2):392-406 Details
O'Neill P, McCole RB, Baker CV (2007), “A molecular analysis of neurogenic placode and cranial sensory ganglion development in the shark, Scyliorhinus canicula.” Dev Biol 304(1):156-81 Details
Schleiffarth JR, Person AD, Martinsen BJ, Sukovich DJ, Neumann A, Baker CV, Lohr JL, Cornfield DN, Ekker SC, Petryk A (2007), “Wnt5a is required for cardiac outflow tract septation in mice.” Pediatr Res 61(4):386-91 Details
2006
Martinsen BJ, Neumann AN, Frasier AJ, Baker CV, Krull CE, Lohr JL (2006), “PINCH-1 expression during early avian embryogenesis: implications for neural crest and heart development.” Dev Dyn 235(1):152-62 Details
2005
Lee VM, Bronner-Fraser M, Baker CV (2005), “Restricted response of mesencephalic neural crest to sympathetic differentiation signals in the trunk.” Dev Biol 278(1):175-92 Details
2004
von Bartheld CS, Baker CV (2004), “Nervus terminalis derived from the neural crest? A surprising new turn in a century-old debate.” Anat Rec B New Anat 278(1):12-3 Details
2002
Baker CV, Stark MR, Bronner-Fraser M (2002), “Pax3-expressing trigeminal placode cells can localize to trunk neural crest sites but are committed to a cutaneous sensory neuron fate.” Dev Biol 249(2):219-36 Details
Kious BM, Baker CV, Bronner-Fraser M, Knecht AK (2002), “Identification and characterization of a calcium channel gamma subunit expressed in differentiating neurons and myoblasts.” Dev Biol 243(2):249-59 Details
2001
Baker CV, Bronner-Fraser M (2001), “Vertebrate cranial placodes I. Embryonic induction.” Dev Biol 232(1):1-61 Details
2000
Baker CV, Bronner-Fraser M (2000), “Establishing neuronal identity in vertebrate neurogenic placodes.” Development 127(14):3045-56 Details
1999
Baker CV, Stark MR, Marcelle C, Bronner-Fraser M (1999), “Competence, specification and induction of Pax-3 in the trigeminal placode.” Development 126(1):147-56 Details
1997
Baker CV, Bronner-Fraser M (1997), “The origins of the neural crest. Part II: an evolutionary perspective.” Mech Dev 69(1-2):13-29 Details
Baker CV, Bronner-Fraser M (1997), “The origins of the neural crest. Part I: embryonic induction.” Mech Dev 69(1-2):3-11 Details
Baker CV, Bronner-Fraser M, Le Douarin NM, Teillet MA (1997), “Early- and late-migrating cranial neural crest cell populations have equivalent developmental potential in vivo.” Development 124(16):3077-87 Details
1995
Baker CV, Sharpe CR, Torpey NP, Heasman J, Wylie CC (1995), “A Xenopus c-kit-related receptor tyrosine kinase expressed in migrating stem cells of the lateral line system.” Mech Dev 50(2-3):217-28 Details


