• 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

  • Amber Carleton

    Ph.D Candidate

  • Anusha Rengarajan

    Ph.D Candidate

  • Jenna Wettstein

    Medical Student

  • Linnea Taniguchi

    Research Associate

  • Lauren Juga

    Research Technician

Learn more our team

Recent News

Nikola received the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment Seed Grant!

January 2024

New Publication Alert!

Identification of amnion progenitor-like cells at the

amnion-epiblast boundary in the primate peri-gastrula.

Sekulovski NS, et al., 2023

New Publication Alert!

Temporally resolved early BMP-driven transcriptional

cascade during human amnion specification

Sekulovski NS, et al., 2023

Taniguchi lab presents 4 posters at the SDB Conference in Chicago

July 2023

We are Hiring!