Dr. Weinstein is a leading expert on zebrafish vascular development. His laboratory pioneered many of the key tools and resources used for vascular biology research in the fish, including the widely used confocal microangiography method, a comprehensive atlas of the anatomy of the developing zebrafish vasculature, numerous vascular-specific transgenic fish lines, and methods for high resolution in vivo time-lapse imaging of zebrafish blood vessels. Using these and other tools and resources, the Weinstein lab has made a variety of seminal discoveries in the areas of vascular specification, differentiation, and patterning, including a novel pathway regulating arterial identity, a role for neuronal guidance factors in vascular patterning, a mechanism for vascular lumen formation in vivo, and identification and characterization of a lymphatic vascular system in the zebrafish.
In addition to his research work, Dr. Weinstein is heavily involved in important service work for both the zebrafish and vascular biology research communities. He was founding organizer of the Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators (SCZI, the most important conference for zebrafish primary investigators), and founding President of the International Zebrafish Society (IZFS), the organization responsible for sponsoring both the SCZI and main International Zebrafish Conference. I was also a council member and President of the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO), and the founding and long-time organizer of the Developmental Vascular Biology (DVB) workshop, the first (and still one of the most popular) NAVBO-sponsored conferences.wide committees.
