CANCELLED - EVENT: Raine Lecture: Professor Dr Magdalena G�tz

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Professor Dr Magdalena Götz is the Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, and Chair of the Physiological Genomics at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. Dr Götz has received the Leibniz Award, the Familie Hansen Award, the Hans und Ilse Breuer Award, the Caro Remedios Prize and the Schering Award.

Dr Götz graduated from the University of Tübingen with a Diploma in Biology and a PhD degree in 1992 (summa cum laude). During her postdoctoral work at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, Dr Götz examined the cell lineage of neuronal subtypes and the regional specification of precursor cells in the cerebral cortex. In her laboratory at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology (1997 - 2003) she discovered the new role of radial glial cells as neuronal precursor cells and identified the transcription factor Pax6 as a key fate determinant.

Magdalena Götz is a Developmental Biologist specialised in the analysis of molecular fate determinants both during development and in adult neurogenesis. One of her major contributions was the discovery that radial glial cells are a major source of neurons in the developing nervous system. She has extensive experience in the use of genetic mouse models as well as viral vectors to manipulate fate determinants in the developing and adult nervous system in vivo.