MoGen search "Genetic Models of Development & Disease", will join the Department as an Assistant Professor in January 2018, on the 15th floor of the MaRS West Tower. He studies mitochondrial biology in Drosophila and mammalian cells. His research program will focus on determining how mitochondrial DNA is inherited through the female germline, and how mitochondria influence stem cell fate and differentiation in vivo, with a long-term interest in applying this knowledge to develop better protocols for reprogramming and differentiating human stem cells in vitro. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, his PhD at the University of Cambridge in Mike Murphy’s laboratory at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, and his postdoctoral work with Ruth Lehmann at NYU School of Medicine.
