The lab joins our friends at diBBE for pastries in the South Chen Gardens!
October 10, 2024
The lab takes a break to hike the nearby Eaton Canyon Falls Trail!
September 15, 2024
Welcoming our newest post-doc, Nina, to the lab and celebrating the double birthday of Laura and Magda!
August 30, 2024
Congratulating this year's SURF students on completing their summer research fellowship
August 5, 2024
Discovery that the first two blastomeres contribute unequally the human embryo published in Cell.
May 23, 2024
Methods for modeling development named Method of the year by Nature Methods
December 6, 2023
Our model of the post-implantation human embryo derived from pluripotent stem cells is published in Nature
June 27, 2023
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is awarded the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize
June 27, 2023
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD, was announced today as the recipient of the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize by Gladstone Institutes.
For more information on this prize visit the official announcement from the Gladstone.
Caltech lab welcomes new grad student, AJ
May 29, 2023
Nature selects in vitro embryo models as a technology to watch in 2023
January 23, 2023
Nature included in vitro embryo models in a list of 7 tools and techniques that are poised to have an outsized impact on science in the coming year. The article includes images from the lab as well as quotes from Professor Zerncika-Goetz.
Watson Lecture on November 2: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Investigates "The Dance of Life: How Do We Become Ourselves?"
November 10, 2022
Our research shows that synthetic embryogenesis is driven by a stem cell-specific cadherin code
September 13, 2022
Our first Cambridge-Caltech joined lab retreat on a beach
August 17, 2022
Wonderful discussions and presentations but also eating and relaxing well
Our synthetic mouse embryos continue to develop to complete gastrulation and establish heart and brain structures
August 1, 2022
Our postdoc, Hannah, received a fellowship from Caltech
May 20, 2022
Hannah Greenfeld, a postdoc in the Caltech lab, has been awarded the BBE Divisional Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate how the anterior central nervous system becomes specified and patterned along the anterior-posterior axis in natural and synthetic mouse embryos.
Welcome!
May 4, 2022
We are pleased to launch our new website. Updates include:
New domain and logo
Our website is now located at zernickagoetzlab.com.
New and updated pages
- Research – Learn about the overarching focuses of our studies.
- Publications – View publications dating back from 1991 (before the lab was formed) to the present. Search for specific publications and filter terms using the Search+ button located in the upper right-hand corner.
- The Art of the Science – View a gallery of our lab's images which demonstrate the beauty of science. Select individual images to view them full-screen and to view their details.
- People – Get to know the Cambridge and Caltech lab members behind our research, past and present.
- News, Support, Magda, Contact – Learn about recent news, our funders, and Magda herself.
Thank you for your visit and stay in touch with Zernicka-Goetz Lab!
Magda awarded the 2022 Conklin Medal
March 5, 2022
Congratulations to Magda for receiving the 2022 Edwin G. Conklin Medal by the Society for Developmental Biology. Established in 1995, the Edwin G. Conklin Medal in Developmental Biology recognizes a developmental biologist who has made and is continuing to make extraordinary research contributions to the field, and is an excellent mentor who has helped train the next generation of outstanding scientists.
Our postdoc, Sergi, received a fellowship from HFSP
February 4, 2022
Sergi Junyent, a postdoc in the Caltech lab, has been awarded a Human Frontiers Science Project Long-term Fellowship, a prestigious fellowship program that supports frontier-pushing, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. He will investigate how metabolic integration participates in mammalian embryo development.
Allen Discovery Center for Lineage Tracing
November 1, 2021
The Zernicka-Goetz Lab received a grant from the Allen Discovery Center for Lineage Tracing.
