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Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD

Principal Investigator, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Nicolas Plachta is a Principal Investigator at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. His lab has pioneered the use of live imaging technologies to study how the early mammalian embryo forms in real time. Dr. Plachta was previously Research Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of ASTAR in Singapore and Group Leader at EMBL Australia. He did his postdoc at Caltech and PhD at the University of Basel. He has been awarded the HHMI International Scholar, EMBO Young Investigator, American Society for Cell Biology Gibco Emerging Leader Prize (USA), and Viertel Medical Fellowship (Australia).

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All Sessions by Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Grand Station Ballroom

The World We Form Keynote: Seeing How Life Starts: Imaging the Earliest Stages of Embryonic Development in Real Time

Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Fountainview Room

Breakout Session 3: The World We Form - Cells to Babies

Emre Seli, MD - Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD - Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD - Amander Clark, PhD