Edlyn Wu. Canadian. Molecular biologist and biochemist. Edlyn completed her MSc and PhD in the lab of Dr. Thomas Duchaine (McGill University, Montreal), where she investigated the mechanism of microRNA-mediated gene silencing, using C. elegans as a model organism. With a passion for traveling and a long standing interest in zebrafish and early developmental biology, she moved to Dresden and joined the Vastenhouw group for her postdoc in January 2017. In Lausanne, Edlyn will continue to investigate the molecular events that regulate the timing of zygotic genome activation and is looking forward to take part in science communication activities.

Hann comes originally from the state of Johor in Malaysia. For his higher education, he left sunny Malaysia and moved to Leeds, UK where he completed his Bachelors and Masters degree. It was then that he was recruited to Dresden, Germany by the Vastenhouw lab to do his PhD where he is working to understand the genetic features that kickstart early transcription during zygotic genome activation. Having just moved with the lab to Lausanne, he will continue this research but now in an exciting new environment!

Martino has studied Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. For his Master Thesis he studied how the synaptic transcriptome changes over time in the mouse cortex. He then joined the Vastenhouw Laboratory for his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden. He has studied the spatial organization of transcription in the nucleus using the early development of the zebrafish as a model, and will continue doing so here at CIG.