Dr. Kristina Mathews

Dr. Kristina Mathews

Y55-K-54

+41 44 635 31 58

Kristina is originally from Connecticut, USA. Upon completing her Bachelor’s degree in engineering, she moved to Germany where she spent a year as an exchange student at the University of Konstanz, followed by several years living in Heidelberg working in Dr. Matthias Hentze’s lab at EMBL. 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.