The Ganesan laboratory uses interdisciplinary approaches to understand how melanocyte homeostasis is maintained in the skin. Our work seeks to answer several fundamental questions:

1) what prevents vitiligo skin from repigmenting?; 2) what induces moles to form and then to stop growing?; 3) why do melanomas continue growing while moles stop growing?; 4) what pathways are the best to target to prevent melanomas from progressing beyond the skin?; 5) how is pigmentation induced in the skin and how is pigment production regulated?