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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