Tudor C Badea

Investigator
Retinal Circuit Development & Genetics Unit
National Eye Institute
United States of America

Scientist Ophthalmology
Biography

Dr. Badea received a M.D. from Iuliu Hatieganu Medical University in Cluj, Romania, a M.A. in Biological Sciences from Columbia University in New York, under the mentorship of Rafael Yuste and Darcy Kelley, and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins Medical School, under the mentorship of Jeremy Nathans. He then completed postdoctoral training in the lab of Jeremy Nathans, working on molecular genetic approaches for the study of neuronal cell type identification, development, and function. He joined the National Eye Institute as a Tenure Track Investigator in 2010, and is heading the Retinal Circuits Development and Genetics Unit of the Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory. His major interest is in the developm

Research Intrest

Ophthalmology and Neuroscience

List of Publications
Molecular codes for cell type specification in Brn3 retinal ganglion cells
Somasundaram P, Wyrick GR, Fernandez DC, Ghahari A, Pinhal CM, Richardson MS, Rupp AC, Cui L, Wu Z, Brown RL, Badea TC. C-terminal phosphorylation regulates the kinetics of a subset of melanopsin-mediated behaviors in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017 Feb 21:201611893.
Chuang K, Nguyen E, Sergeev Y, Badea TC. Novel heterotypic Rox sites for combinatorial Dre recombination strategies. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2016 Mar 1;6(3):559-71.