Dr. Kristina Mathews

Dr. Kristina Mathews

Y55-K-34

+41 44 635 31 64

Upon completing her Bachelor's degree in engineering at the University of Rochester in New York, Kristina worked in Dr. Matthias Hentze’s lab at EMBL for several years. She returned to the US to join Prof. Trudi Schüpbach’s group at Princeton University as a graduate student in the Department of Molecular Biology. There, she was awarded her PhD for her work studying female sterile mutations that disrupt axis establishment during oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. In 2011, Kristina joined Prof. Monica Zwicky’s lab at the University of Zurich where she investigated the genetic underpinnings of sexual size dimorphism in Drosophila larvae.

Kristina joined the Brunner lab in October 2021 to support research aimed at further elucidating molecular mechanisms that drive cell and tissue shape changes during Drosophila embryogenesis.