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Erik is a junior group leader in the Department of Genetics and leads the Embryo Patterning group. He moved to Cambridge in 2012, spending years in the Department of Zoology as a PhD student in the lab of Michael Akam. Subsequently, he was an EMBO postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Angela DePace at Harvard Medical School before returning to Cambridge to join the Department of Genetics. Erik holds a PhD in Zoology from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology from Imperial College London, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford. He established his group in 2023, supported by a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award. His research interests include developmental patterning systems, focusing on regulatory rules and biophysical processes that enable multicellular animals to reproduce their complex organization from a single fertilized egg. He investigates processes that generate anteroposterior patterning in bilaterian animals, employing a combination of quantitative imaging, genetic perturbations, and computational simulations using Drosophila embryos as the main model system.
Department of Genetics • University of Cambridge
Leading the Embryo Patterning group and conducting research on developmental patterning systems.
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