Marta N. Shahbazi

Marta Shahbazi is an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at the laboratory of Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (University of Cambridge). Marta did her PhD at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) under the supervision of Mirna Perez-Moreno, working on the basic mechanisms that preserve the shape and function of epidermal stem cells. For her post-doctoral training she is applying her knowledge on basic cell biology to study the development of mammalian embryos. Her current research focuses on the transcriptional and architectural changes that take place in the embryonic compartment of mouse and human embryos at the time of implantation. She has recently worked in the establishment of a system to culture of human embryos up to day 13 in vitro.