FRANCE – SINGAPORE SCIENCE AND INNOVATION LECTURES SERIES

Date: 28 April 2021, Wed
Time: 4.30pm – 5.30pm SGT

Biochemical, Mechanical and Geometrical Information in Morphogenesis

By Professor Thomas LECUIT, Chair of Dynamics of Living Systems, Collège de France

Biography
Thomas Lecuit did a PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and received postdoctoral training at Princeton University. He became a group leader at the Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM) in 2001 and Professor at the Collège de France in 2016. He is also Director of the Turing Centre for Living Systems, an interdisciplinary centre based in Marseille. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He is deeply interested in how the tissues that form our organs acquire and maintain their architecture dynamically, and has special expertise in the physics and modelling of embryonic development. He has been an editor of Development since 2008.