We use freshwater planarians as models
to study the molecular basis of regeneration.
Please follow the links at the left to learn
more about our research, who we are,
and to find other links to planarian research.
The genome of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea has been sequenced and assembled by the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center. The data can be accessed via the Smed Genome Database (Sánchez Alvarado laboratory).
