Schüpbach set for Discovery Lecture
Trudi Schüpbach, Ph.D., professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, will deliver the next Discovery Lecture on Thursday, March 1.
Her presentation, "Control of EGF Receptor Activity and Axis Establishment in Drosophila Oogenesis," will begin at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
Trudi Schüpbach, Ph.D.
Schüpbach’s laboratory studies the genetic and molecular mechanisms that establish developmental asymmetries in the egg of the fruit fly Drosophila, particularly a signaling process involving the Drosophila epidermal growth factor receptor.
Schüpbach received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she worked on the genetics of sex determination in Drosophila. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Her husband, Eric Wieschaus, Ph.D., Nobel laureate and Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton, will deliver the March 8 Discovery Lecture.
Schüpbach’s lecture is sponsored by the Program in Developmental Biology and the Epithelial Cell Biology Center. For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture series and archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.