• Welcome to the Taniguchi Lab

    Discovering the biology of early embryogenesis using stem cell models - apicosome, epiblast, and amnion

  • Epiblast lumenogenesis driven by the apicosome

    A major focus of the Taniguchi lab is to identify how human epiblast structure is formed during implantation

  • Amniogenesis

    The Taniguchi lab actively investigates molecular and cellular mechanisms driving amniotic lineage progression

  • Human Cortical Organoid

    We investigate how cell polarization driven by membrane trafficking machinery contributes to human cortical organoid development

Our Goal

Advance women’s reproductive and child health - understand molecular and cellular bases of peri-implantation human development, a period referred to as the “black box” of human embryogenesis, using animal as well as stem cell-based 3D tissue models

Meet Our Team

  • Kenichiro Taniguchi

    Principal Investigator

  • Nikola Sekulovski

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jeenat Urmi

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Amber Carleton

    Ph.D Candidate

  • Anusha Rengarajan

    Ph.D Candidate

  • Maliha Kabir

    Ph. D Candidate

  • Jenna Wettstein

    Medical Student

  • Linnea Taniguchi

    Research Associate

  • Lauren Juga

    Research Technician

Learn more our team

Recent News

New Publication Alert!

Temporally resolved early bone morphogenetic protein-driven transcriptional cascade during human amnion specification.

Sekulovski NS, et al., 2024

Taniguchi lab presents at annual SSR Conference in Dublin, Ireland!

July 2024

Ken turns 40!

Taniguchi lab and friends celebrated Ken turning 40 with BINGO night and build your own sushi!

January 2024

Nikola received the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment Seed Grant!

January 2024

We are Hiring!