developmental and stem cell biologists
Rashmi finished her Masters from India and then joined Alpha Yap’s lab in 2011 at IMB, UQ, Australia to pursue her PhD. 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 uses tools/ approaches from quantitative cell biology, developmental genetics and biophysics to address how complex organ architecture emerges during embryogenesis.
