Speaker

Prisca Liberali is a senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel. She has been trained as a physical organic chemist and then changed fields for her PhD and became a stem cell biologist. During her postdoc at the ETH and University of Zurich she has developed single-cell methods to study cell-to-cell variability and its involvement in the emergence of complex cellular traits. Prisca Liberali made important contributions in fields ranging from fundamental chemistry to in vivo tissue regeneration. Her laboratory works role of self-organisation in collective cell behaviours, and how these are coordinated by biochemical and mechanical cues. Because these emergent phenomena have multiple layers of biological organisation at different scales, the laboratory develops novel experimental, quantitative and statistical methods required to decoding the design principles of tissue organization. She was received the ERC Starting Grant, and was awarded the Friedrich Miescher price in 2021 and the EMBO Gold Medal in 2022.

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