Abteilung Lecaudey

Our group is interested in understanding how cells sense, integrate and respond to biochemical and mechanical signals from their environment to form functional tissue and organs, and finally a complete embryo. 

We are particularly interested in epithelial cells which interact a lot with their environment and assemble into tissues that shape our organs. We use the zebrafish embryo (Danio rerio) as a model organism to study the mechanisms underlying epithelia biology in an in vivo context.