The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Robin Lovell-Badge obtained his PhD at University College London in 1978 and was a postdoc in Cambridge, both with Martin Evans. After an EMBO fellowship in Paris he established his independent laboratory in 1982 at the MRC Mammalian Development Unit, UCL, directed by Anne McLaren. In 1988 he moved to the MRC National Institute for Medical Research, becoming Head of the Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics in 1993. The NIMR was incorporated into the Francis Crick Institute in April 2015. His lab discovered Sry, the Y-linked sex determining gene, and the first members of the Sox gene family, such as Sox2, showing that the latter was involved in pluripotency. Major themes of his current work include sex determination, gonad development and maintenance, development of the nervous system and pituitary, and the biology of stem cells within these systems. He is also active in both public engagement and policy work, notably around stem cells, genetics, and human embryo research.
EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION
Thursday, June 12, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time