Adam Martin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology
Speakers and organizers
The people who make VGZT.
Central person records keep names and current profiles consistent while preserving event-specific affiliations in the seminar archive.
VGZT people archive
Adriano Bolondi
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona
Adrien Hallou
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
Agáta Horáčková
Charles University, Faculty of Science — Department of Zoology
Akankshi Munjal
Duke University
Alessandro Mongera
University College London, Cell & Developmental Biology
Alexander F. Schier
Harvard University
Alexander van Oudenaarden
Utrecht University; Hubrecht Institute
Alexandra Vetrova
Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology RAS, Laboratory of Morphogenesis Evolution; Department of Embryology, Saint Petersburg State University
Alexandre Francou
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hadjantonakis Laboratory / Developmental Biology Program
Alfonso Martínez Arias
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences / Systems Bioengineering
Ali Seleit
University of Freiburg, Institute of Biology I — Developmental Biology
Allison Kann
Harvard University (Mansi Srivastava Lab)
Amanda Andersson Rolf
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Anahi Binagui-Casas
School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Anais Bailles
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden — Tomancak Group
Anchel de Jaime Soguero
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), IRIBHM
Andrea Münsterberg
University of East Anglia, School of Biological Sciences
Andreas Hejnol
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research
Andrew Countryman
Columbia University — Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kasza Lab
Anestis Tsakiridis
School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield
Anna Dorothea Senft
NICHD, National Institutes of Health — Section on Mammalian Development and Evolution
Anna Kicheva
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Anne Sutherland
University of Virginia, Department of Cell Biology
Antoine Zalc
Institut Cochin (Inserm, CNRS, Université Paris Cité), Paris
Antonia Weberling
All Souls College, University of Oxford; Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford
Arjuna Rajakumar
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT, Lehmann Lab
Aryeh Warmflash
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics
Ashley Bruce
University of Toronto, Department of Cell & Systems Biology
Ashley R. G. Libby
University of Toronto, Donnelly Centre / Department of Molecular Genetics
Atsuko Sato
Ochanomizu University, Faculty of Core Research, Natural Sciences (cross-appointed at Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences)
Axel H. Newton
University of Melbourne (Pask Lab)
Barbora Straková
Wesleyan University, Tezak Lab, Department of Biology
Ben Steventon
University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics
Benjamin Swedlund
University of Southern California
Benoit G. Bruneau
University of California, San Francisco & Gladstone Institutes
Benoit Sorre
Institut Curie / CNRS / Sorbonne Université, Physics of Cells and Cancer (UMR168)
Berna Sözen
Yale School of Medicine
Bernard Thisse
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology
Berta Verd
University of Oxford, Department of Biology; Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College
Bertie Göttgens
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge
Bertrand Bénazéraf
Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), CNRS / Université de Toulouse
Bruno C. Vellutini
Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Camilla Autorino
EMBL Heidelberg, Developmental Biology Unit; Heidelberg University
Can Aztekin
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen
Cantas Alev
Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study; Graduate School of Medicine
Carlo Colantuoni
Carlo Colantuoni Consulting, LLC; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; University of Maryland School of Medicine
Caroline Hill
The Francis Crick Institute
Cassandra Extavour
Harvard University
Celeste M. Nelson
Princeton University
Charlene Guillot
iGReD, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
Chen Yuan Kam
University of California, Los Angeles (Medicine/Dermatology; MCDB; Broad Stem Cell Research Center)
Chii Jou Chan
National University of Singapore; Mechanobiology Institute
Christian Mosimann
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Biology
Christoph Viebahn
University Medical Center Göttingen, Institute of Anatomy and Embryology
Chun So
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS)
Claudia Vásquez
University of Washington
Claudio Collinet
Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), Aix Marseille Université & CNRS
Claudio Stern
University College London, Cell and Developmental Biology
Cornelis J. Weijer
University of Dundee, School of Life Sciences
Daniel Čapek
University of Salzburg, Biosciences and Medical Biology (incoming: Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen)
David M. Umulis
Purdue University
David Mörsdorf
Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna
David Oriola Santandreu
Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona
David Shook
University of Virginia, DeSimone Laboratory
Deirdre Lyons
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Dhiraj Indana
California Institute of Technology, Biology and Biological Engineering
Diana Pinheiro
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter
Edouard Hannezo
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Edwin M. Munro
University of Chicago
Edwin Rosado-Olivieri
NYU College of Dentistry; Biomedical Engineering, New York University
Edwina McGlinn
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), Monash University
Elena Camacho-Aguilar
University of Seville & Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology (CABD)
Elvan Böke
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona — Oocyte Biology & Cellular Dormancy
Emily A. Bates
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Eric Siggia
The Rockefeller University; adjunct/professor affiliation with Cornell also listed
Erik Clark
University of Cambridge — Department of Genetics
Eugenia M. del Pino
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), School of Biological Sciences
Evan Kingsley
Rhodes College
Evgeny Kvon
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine
Fredrik Lanner
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Gavin Schlissel
Stanford University School of Medicine
Girish Kale
Institute of Biology, University of Hohenheim; Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
Giuliana Rossi
Institute of Human Biology (Roche), Basel
Granton Jindal
University of California, San Diego — Farley Lab, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Biology
Grigory Genikhovich
University of Vienna, Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology
Guillermo Serrano Nájera
University of Cambridge — Department of Genetics
Guojun Sheng
International Research Center for Medical Sciences (IRCMS), Kumamoto University
Hannah Long
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Harry M. McNamara
Yale University
Hernan G. Garcia
University of California, Berkeley — Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and Department of Physics
Hidenobu Miyazawa
Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg (Aulehla Group)
Hiroki Oda
JT Biohistory Research Hall; Osaka University
Idse Heemskerk
University of Michigan
Iftach Nachman
Tel Aviv University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology / School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Isabelle Migeotte
IRIBHM, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Ivan Bedzhov
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Jacob H. Hanna
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Molecular Genetics
James Sharpe
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Barcelona
Jan Jakub Zylicz
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen; reNEW
Jay Shendure
University of Washington School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jean-Léon Maître
Institut Curie, Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit (CNRS/Inserm)
Jennifer Nichols
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Jennifer Zenker
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University
Jérôme Gros
Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology; CNRS UMR3738
Jesse Veenvliet
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden; Physics of Life TU Dresden
Jianping Fu
University of Michigan
Jingjing Sun
California Institute of Technology — Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Stathopoulos Lab
Joaquin Navajas Acedo
Biozentrum, University of Basel (Schier lab)
John Wallingford
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Molecular Biosciences
Jon Muncie
Gladstone Institutes, Bruneau Lab
Jonathan Rodenfels
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden
José C. R. Silva
Guangzhou National Laboratory
José María (Chema) Martín-Durán
Queen Mary University of London
Joshua D. Frenster
University of Freiburg — Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Joshua Mark Brickman
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen; reNEW
Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff
EMBL Heidelberg, Prevedel Group
Juliane Glaser
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE), Freiburg
Jun Wu
UT Southwestern Medical Center — Department of Molecular Biology
Justin Crocker
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg — Developmental Biology Unit
Karen E. Kasza
Columbia University
Karuna Sampath
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
Kate Cavanaugh
University of California, San Francisco (Weiner Lab)
Kate McDole
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB), Cambridge
Katharina Sonnen
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
Katherine W. Rogers
NICHD, National Institutes of Health
Kristen Panfilio
University of Hohenheim — Institute for Biology, Department of Molecular Genetics
Kristina Stapornwongkul
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna
Ksenia Skvortsova
Garvan Institute of Medical Research; UNSW Sydney
Kyra Campbell
University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences
Lakshmi Balasubramaniam
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Lance Davidson
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Bioengineering
Laurent Formery
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Sorbonne Université/CNRS — BIOM, Echinox group
Léo Guignard
Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS — Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM)
Leqian Yu
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liangwen Zhong
Yale School of Medicine
Lila Solnica-Krezel
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Loïc Le Goff
Institut Fresnel, Aix-Marseille Université (MOSAIC team)
Louis S. Prahl
University of Colorado Boulder — BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Luca Braccioli
Utrecht University, Department of Biology / Institute of Biodynamics and Biocomplexity
Lucie Zilova
Heidelberg University — Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
M. Joaquina Delás
University College London — Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology
Madalena Madeira Reimão Pinto
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Maithreyi Narasimha
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Department of Biological Sciences
Marc Trani Bustos
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG); Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TU Dresden
Margarete Diaz Cuadros
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Margherita Perillo
Marine Biological Laboratory, Bell Center
Maria Barna
Stanford University — Department of Genetics
Marissa Gredler
Harvard University
Marta Nasila Shahbazi
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge — Cell and Developmental Biology
Marta Truchado García
University of California, Berkeley — Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Mary Mullins
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Matteo Rauzi
Institut de Biologie Valrose (iBV), Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS & Inserm
Matthew Benton
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
Matthias P. Lütolf
Institute of Human Biology (Roche), Basel; EPFL Institute of Bioengineering
Mattia Serra
Department of Physics, University of California San Diego
Mel White
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Meng Zhu
Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics (incoming: Gurdon Institute & Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)
Merlin Lange
Institut de la Vision, Paris
Michael Veeman
Kansas State University, Division of Biology
Miguel Concha
Universidad de Chile, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine; Biomedical Neuroscience Institute
Mijo Simunovic
Columbia University
Miki Ebisuya
TU Dresden, Physics of Life (PoL); affiliated with MPI-CBG
Mo Ebrahimkhani
University of Pittsburgh, Departments of Pathology and Bioengineering
Muhammed F. Simsek
McMaster University, Department of Biology
Nadia Ayad
Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco & University of California Berkeley; Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration, UCSF
Naihe Jing
Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou, China
Nandan Nerurkar
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Natasha Shylo Hyson
Rowan University — Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Nate Lord
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computational and Systems Biology
Nathaniel Clarke
University of Miami — Department of Biology
Nicolas Rivron
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter
Nicole A. Edwards
University of Michigan Medical School
Nicoletta Petridou
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
Olivier Pourquié
Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Osvaldo Contreras
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute; UNSW Sydney
Patrick Lemaire
Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM), CNRS / Université de Montpellier
Patrick Müller
University of Konstanz, Systems Biology of Development and Disease
Pavel Tomancak
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden
Peter Zandstra
University of British Columbia
Philip (Phil) Abitua
University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences
Pierre-François Lenne
Marseille Institute of Developmental Biology (IBDM), CNRS / Aix-Marseille University
Pierre Osteil
Université Clermont Auvergne / GReD
Pragathi Masamsetti
Children’s Medical Research Institute; University of Sydney
Prayag Murawala
MDI Biological Laboratory; Hannover Medical School
Prisca Liberali
ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Pulin Li
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Whitehead Institute
Ramkumar Sambasivan
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati
Raquel Fueyo
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
Raymond E. Keller
University of Virginia
Richa Rikhy
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune
Richard Harland
University of California, Berkeley, Molecular & Cell Biology
Riley McMahon
University of Cambridge
Roberto Mayor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London
Romain Levayer
Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Rudi Winklbauer
University of Toronto — Department of Cell & Systems Biology
Rui Yan
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Tabin Lab)
Ruth Arkell
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University
Sally Lowell
University of Edinburgh, School of Biological Sciences / Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Sameer Thukral
Laboratory for Epithelial Morphogenesis, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Sanjay Narayanaswamy
Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna
Sanjeev Galande
Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR
Sarah Bowling
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Developmental Biology
Sebastian Arnold
University of Freiburg, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Sebastian Streichan
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics
Shankar Srinivas
University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics / IDRM
Shi-Lei Xue
Westlake University
Shinuo Weng
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Shun Shibata
Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
Silvia Santos
Francis Crick Institute; Imperial College London
Soham Basu
EMBL Heidelberg, Developmental Biology Unit; Heidelberg University
Sophie Morgani
NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health
Sreelaja Nair
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Stefano Di Talia
Duke University
Stephan Grill
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden
Stephanie Woo
University of California, Merced
Suraj Shankar
University of Michigan
Susanne van den Brink
Sanquin Research, Blood Builder Lab, Amsterdam
Tatiana Lebedeva
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Research
Tatsuo Shibata
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Teresa Rayón
Babraham Institute; Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Thibaut Brunet
Institut Pasteur / Université Paris Cité / CNRS, Departments of Cell Biology & Infection and Developmental Biology & Stem Cells
Thomas Gregor
Princeton University; Institut Pasteur, Paris
Thomas Lecuit
Collège de France; Marseille Institute of Developmental Biology (IBDM), Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS
Tiago Rito
The University of Hong Kong, School of Biomedical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering
Tim Fulton
Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Timothy Edward Saunders
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
Toby Andrews
University of Oxford, Department of Paediatrics / Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine
Tom Wyatt
Cyclana Bio
Tony Y.-C. Tsai
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Tyler Huycke
University of Michigan — Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Ulrich Technau
University of Vienna, Department of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology
Uri Frank
University of Galway — School of Biological and Chemical Sciences / Centre for Chromosome Biology
Valerie Wilson
University of Edinburgh, Centre for Regenerative Medicine / Institute for Regeneration and Repair
Vanessa Barone
Stanford University, Department of Biology
Vera van der Weijden
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University
Victoria Deneke
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna — Pauli Lab
Vikas Trivedi
EMBL Barcelona, with joint appointment at EMBL Heidelberg
Wolfram Pönisch
Computational Biology Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan
Xingbo Yang
Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, TU Dresden
Yuchuan Miao
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology
Yusuke Marikawa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry & Physiology / Institute for Biogenesis Research
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Season 8
Guangxin Zhang
Francis Crick Institute · UK
Manisha Goyal
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) · USA
Guoye Guan
Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · USA
Sanskriti Saxena
Van Andel Institute · USA
Keyu Shen
Francis Crick Institute · UK / Germany