A Talk to Celebrate the Election of Prof. Tepass as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

From the Royal Society of Canada: Tepass is an international leader in the analysis of epithelial cell polarity and cell adhesion using the genetic model organism, the fruit fly. He was among the first to characterize an epithelial polarity factor in 1990, and since then has made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of the molecular regulation of cell polarity and adhesion and the developmental significance of these processes. The fundamental insights that this work has generated are relevant for our understanding of human disease, including blindness and most forms of cancer. Tepass is an international leader in the analysis of epithelial cell polarity and cell adhesion using the genetic model organism, the fruit fly. He was among the first to characterize an epithelial polarity factor in 1990, and since then has made numerous seminal contributions to our understanding of the molecular regulation of cell polarity and adhesion and the developmental significance of these processes. The fundamental insights that this work has generated are relevant for our understanding of human disease, including blindness and most forms of cancer.