Suzanne Eaton BSc, PhD

Suzanne Eaton is a senior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and Professor at the Dresden Technical University. She obtained her PhD from UCLA studying immunoglobulin gene transcription. She moved into developmental biology as a postdoc with Tom Kornberg at UCSF, where she worked on identifying the signaling circuits that set up the AP boundary organizer in Drosophila wing discs. To more deeply understand the cell biological mechanisms underlying epithelial development, she moved to the EMBL Cell Biology Programme for a second postdoc with Kai Simons. Her own research group (since 1999) has focused on the cell biological and biophysical mechanisms underlying development, encompassing topics that range from tissue mechanics through signaling and metabolism.