Cesar Arenas-Mena

Dr. Arenas-Mena initiated his research career at the CSIC, Barcelona, studying the transcriptional regulation of water stress genes in plants under the supervision of Montserrat Pages. During his postdoctoral research in the group of Erick Davidson at Caltech, he contributed to the characterization of the gene regulatory network that controls the specification of the endomesoderm in sea urchin embryos, and he also studied the expression of Hox cluster genes during embryonic and postembryonic development. At San Diego State University he studied trascriptional multipotency mechanisms in a polychaete model system that has feeding trochophore larva.  Ongoing projects relate to the experimental and genome-wide characterization of developmental gene regulatory mechanisms.

Awards and Grants

• NASA exobiology

Professional Affiliations and Memberships

• Society for Developmental Biology

Courses Taught

• Developmental Biology 
• Biochemistry
• Gene Regulatory Systems
• Cell Biology
• Evolution of Development
• Evolution
• Invertebrate zoology
• General Biology

Publications

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/cesar.arenas-mena.1/bibliography/49510815/public/?sort=date&direction=descending.