Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
| Mail Code: | 139-74 |
| Office: | 222 Beckman Institute |
| Phone: | 626-395-2759 |
M.Sc., University of Warsaw, 1988; Ph.D, 1993; Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2018-19; Bren Professor, 2019-.
Research Areas:
Developmental Biology and Genetics;
Evolutionary and Organismal Biology
Research Interests
Developmental plasticity, cell fate specification and morphogenesis in the mouse and human embryoIn our group we investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the specification of cell lineages and patterning. The mouse embryo is our major model system because this allows us to combine cell biological and molecular genetic approaches with live embryo imaging to study development in a system that is close to our own, human development.