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Dr. Matunis began studying stem cells as a post-doc with Steve DiNardo at Rockefeller over twenty years ago, when stem cells were uncharacterized in the fly testis. This yielded one of the first descriptions of a stem cell niche at the cellular and molecular level in vivo. She began her independent career as a Staff Associate at the Carnegie Institution, where her group found that Jak-Stat signaling molecularly defines the fly testis niche. She moved to Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the School of Medicine in 2002, and was promoted to Professor in 2013.
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