Farnum, Cornelia E
James Law Professor of Anatomy
research
research and scholarship focus
Understand fundamental control mechanisms at different levels of skeletal integration-from the molecular to the cellular to that of the individual-that are responsible for co-ordinated long bone growth
Perturbations of normal growth, possiblities and limitations of intervention procedures for the correction of abnormalities of long bone growth
- analysis of chondrocytic control of diffrential bone growth in the postnatal animal
- analysis of altered growth plate activity during naturally occuring and experimentally induced perturbations of growth, including spontaneous disease.
- analysis of a variety of transgenic and knockout mutants that have specific perturbations leading to abnormal growth plate activity
- analysis of radiation-induced damage to rat growth plates as a model to study radiation effects and possible treatments of bone tumors
- a study of mechanical modulation of growth plate activity as a model of scoliosis in children
- a study of the vascular environment of the growth plate using multi-phonton microscopy
primary investigator of
- IN VIVO IMAGING OF GROWTH PLATE DYNAMICS | Research Grant
- TARGETING COMPOUNDS TO THE GROWTH PLATE OF BONES | Research Grant
- THE PRIMARY CILIM OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS: INCIDENCE AND ORIENTATION | Research Grant
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Biomedical Sciences (VTBMS) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Comparative Biomedical Sciences | graduate field
- Zoology | graduate field
member of advisory group
- Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center Microscopy and Imaging Faculty Advisory Group | advisory committee
teaching
teaches
- VTBMS 6000 - Special Project in Anatomy (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- VTBMS 6000 - Special Project in Anatomy (TBA -) | spring 2009 class