2021 Chi-Bin Chien Award Winner: Rashmi Priya, PhD

Rashmi Priya, PhD
The Francis Crick Institute
London, UK

Award Lecture - Sculpting the Vertebrate Heart – Forms, Forces and Fate

After finishing her Masters from India, Rashmi joined Alpha Yap’s lab in 2011 at IMB, UQ, Australia. Her work focused on the systems cell biology regulating epithelial tissue integrity. For her post-doctoral training, Rashmi joined Didier Stainier’s lab in 2016 at Max-Planck HLR, Germany, to study zebrafish heart development. She used her interdisciplinary background to provide novel insights into cardiac trabeculation – a less-understood morphogenetic event crucial for heart function. She was awarded fellowships from EMBO and Humboldt foundation and a DFG grant to support her research. In February 2021, Rashmi started her own lab at the Francis Crick Institute, London. Her lab will continue to take advantage of the developing zebrafish heart and will adopt unique approaches from quantitative cell biology, developmental genetics and biophysics. The overarching goal of Rashmi’s lab is to address how complex organ architecture emerges from simple governing rules of mechanochemical interactions

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Lab website: https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/rashmi-priya

The Chi-Bin Chien Award was established by the zebrafish research community and the International Zebrafish Society (IZFS) in memory of Dr. Chi-Bin Chien. The award recognizes outstanding graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, or recently appointed faculty members from any country who have made significant contributions to the field of zebrafish research and have exhibited the generosity and openness that characterized and motivated Chi-Bin Chien. Read more about the CBC Award and its past recipients here.