Corinne Houart

Houart studied biomedical sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She remained there for doctoral research, where she studied gene regulation in cancer. After a career break in Mexico, Houart moved to the University of Oregon, where she became an expert in zebrafish genetics. She identified that the anterior neural border and the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway were essential for forebrain regionalisation.[1] She showed that the specification of the forebrain took place at the neural plate stage.[1]

In 2001, Houart started her own laboratory in London, where she was made a professor in 2008.[2] She has since studied the molecular mechanisms that underpin the development of zebrafish forebrains. She has also been studying the similarities between the regionalisation of zebrafish and mouse brains. By better understanding the brains of zebrafish, Houart believes it will be possible to better understand neurodegeneration.[1]

In 2016, Houart was awarded the Medical Research Council Suffrage Science award[3] and she was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2021.[4]

• Stephen W Wilson; Corinne Houart (1 February 2004). "Early steps in the development of the forebrain". Developmental Cell. 6 (2): 167–181. doi:10.1016/S1534-5807(04)00027-9. ISSN 1534-5807. PMC 2789258. PMID 14960272. Wikidata Q35666127.
• Younbok Lee; Han-Jou Chen; João N Peres; et al. (27 November 2013). "Hexanucleotide repeats in ALS/FTD form length-dependent RNA foci, sequester RNA binding proteins, and are neurotoxic". Cell Reports. 5 (5): 1178–1186. doi:10.1016/J.CELREP.2013.10.049. ISSN 2211-1247. PMC 3898469. PMID 24290757. Wikidata Q37503127.
• Corinne Houart; Luca Caneparo; Carl Heisenberg; K Barth; Masaya Take-Uchi; Stephen Wilson (1 July 2002). "Establishment of the telencephalon during gastrulation by local antagonism of Wnt signaling". Neuron. 35 (2): 255–265. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00751-1. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 12160744. Wikidata Q47073120.