Peter Maye

Associate Professor

Department of Reconstructive Sciences

Peter Maye received his Ph.D. in Biology from Wesleyan University under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Grabel in 2001. As a Ph.D. student, he learned about early mouse development, Hedgehog signaling, and the application of embryonic stem cells to study development. He then went on to carry out two postdoctoral fellowships at UConn Health.  The first postdoctoral study was under the mentorship of Dr. Dan Wu where he investigated Wnt and Hedgehog signaling networks. It was during this time that Wnt signaling became an area of great interest to the field of skeletal biology and prompted the decision to pursue a second postdoctoral study in the area of bone biology under the mentorship of Dr. David Rowe.  In the Rowe lab, Peter learned how to use mice to study bone tissue and as a faculty member at UConn Health has carried out lineage tracing studies to investigate the origins of bone marrow stromal cells and has developed a variety of fluorescent reporter mouse models to study different cell types within skeletal and dental tissues.  He is fascinated with the local and systemic regulation of bone tissue and the interplay of mechanisms contributing to skeletal diseases.