Biology Seminar Series: Amy Shyer," Fate, form, and the organizing role of the supracellular nexus"

Amy Shyer earned her B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA where she began her research career studying synaptic transmission in Drosophila. For her Ph.D. at Harvard, she bridged experimental developmental biology with biophysics through work with developmental geneticist Cliff Tabin and applied mathematician L. Mahadevan. As a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley, she worked with the labs of Richard Harland and Sanjay Kumar, intersecting embryology with bioengineering tools to expose novel relationships between gene expression and morphogenesis. In 2018, she joined the Rockefeller University as an assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Morphogenesis. She has been awarded a Miller Research Fellowship, a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, and is a 2020 Searle Scholar and a 2023 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipient.