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Teaching Interests

• Genetics and Genomics, Developmental Biology, Cell Biology

 Research Interests

• Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, Reproductive Biology of Marine Invertebrates

 Selected Publications

1. Perillo M, Oulhen N, Foster S, Spurell M, Calestani C, Wessel G. Regulation of dynamic pigment cell states at single-cell resolution (2020). Elife 9:e60388. doi:10.7554/eLife.60388 
2. Calestani C., Dean, P. and Li X. (2018). Identification of three required positive cis-regulated inputs of the sea urchin pigment cell gene polyketide synthase 1. ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ´«Ã½ÓÐÏÞ¹«Ë¾ÍøÕ¾ Journal of Science, 76, No. 2, Article 6.
3. Calestani C. and Wessel G.M. (2018). These colors don’t run: regulation of pigment biosynthesis in echinoderms. In: Marine Organisms as Model Systems in Biology and Medicine, Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation. Eds: Drs. Malgorzata Kloc and Jacek Z. Kubiak. Springer International Publishing AG. 65:515-525.
4. Barsi J.C., Tu Q., Calestani C. and Davidson E.H. (2015). Genome-wide assessment of differential effector gene use in embryogenesis. Development, 142, 3892-3901
5. Beele A. and Calestani C. (2012). Expression pattern of polyketide synthase-2 during sea urchin development. Gene Expr. Patterns, 12, 7-10. Epub 2011 Oct 5.
6. Calestani C. and Rogers D. (2010). Cis-regulatory analysis of the sea urchin pigment cell gene polyketide synthase.  Biol.340, 249-255.
7. Stenyakina A., Walters L.J., Hoffman E.A., and Calestani C. (2010). Food availability and sex reversal in adult Mytella charruana, an introduced bivalve in the southeastern United States.  Reprod. Dev. 77, 222-230.
8. Todd A. Castoe, Tricia Stephens, Brice P. Noonan and Calestani C. (2007). A novel group of type I polyketide synthases (PKS) in animals and the complex phylogenomics of PKSs. Gene392, 47-58.
9. Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing Consortium (2006). The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Science314, 941 – 952.