Silvia Santos

Biography

2008 PhD, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany 2009 Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford University, USA 2014 Career Development Award (CDA), MRC-LMS, Imperial College London, London, UK 2017 Group Leader, the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK 

Research Interest

During cell decision-making, gene and protein networks dynamically change in response to cues in order to trigger different cellular states. How information is decoded and transmitted in order to commit to specific cell fates has been a fundamental question in cell and developmental biology. One way to understand this is to quantitatively monitor input-output relationships in single cells during decision-making. In this context, the quantitative cell biology lab aims to understand how signalling molecules are organized into circuits, how these circuits are spatio-temporally regulated and remodel in two important cellular decisions: cell division and cellular differentiation.