Marcos Gonzalez-gaitan PhD

Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan did his Ph.D. in Madrid with Antonio Garcia-Bellido and a postdoc with Herbert Jäckle in Gottingen. Then he started his group at the Max-Planck Institute of molecular cell biology and genetics in Dresden. His initial focus was on the Cell Biology of Development: endocytosis, signaling, and morphogens. Then he started to collaborate with the Jülicher group from the MPI of Physics of complex systems. Since then, his strength is in combining developmental molecular biology, cell biology, and physics. Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitán is a professor in biochemistry at the University of Geneva.

His main research interest is the biophysics and cell biology of endocytic trafficking during morphogenetic signaling and asymmetric cell division, to understand how cells talk to each other during development in physical and molecular terms and how the shape and final size of tissue are achieved during embryogenesis. His approach is highly multidisciplinary and is performed in two model systems: Drosophila and Zebrafish.