Gastruloids: stem cell models of gastrulation and body plan engineering

Speaker: Alfonso Martinez Arias

Venue: Lecture Hall, Floor 1, School of Medicine, Zijingang Campus

Abstract: Alfonso Martinez Arias is currently ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago (1983) and after a postdoc at the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) became affiliated with the University of Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and, from 2001, as professor of Developmental Mechanic. In 2021 he moved to Barcelona. He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and of the Academia Europea and has received the Waddington medal of the British Society of Developmental Biology. Currently his work is at the interface between stem cell, developmental and systems biology. Alfonso has published over 190 articles in his field and coauthors the classic text book in the field Wolpert's Principles of Development (OUP). In 2023 he published “The Master Builder”(Basic Books) where he suggests a cell's eye view of biology from the perspective of development.