Prisca Liberali PhD

Prisca has been trained as a physical organic chemist with a focus on the dynamical understanding of organic chemical reactions. She then changed fields for her Ph.D. and became a molecular cell biologist. She has developed single-cell methods to study cell-to-cell variability and its involvement in the emergence of complex cellular traits. For a few years, she has become fascinated by the role of self-organization in collective cell behaviors, and how these can control intracellular signaling in single cells. Because these emergent phenomena have multiple layers of biological organization at different scales, she believes that novel experimental, quantitative and statistical methods are required to integrate our understanding of single-cell biology. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the FMI with a lab focused on dynamics of self-organization, and how cellular signaling dictates its spatial-temporal regulation.