Shankar Srinivas

Shankar Srinivas is a Professor of Developmental Biology at Oxford whose research delves into how embryos are shaped in the earliest stages of life. He leads a group investigating the coordinated movements and fate decisions of cells during gastrulation and early organogenesis, with a particular interest in how the heart begins to form and beat. By combining time-lapse microscopy, single-cell techniques, molecular genetics and imaging, his team seeks to reveal the mechanistic basis of embryonic patterning and morphogenesis.

Professor of Developmental Biology

Photonics is one of the tools that helps me to study embryogenesis, by imaging cell movements and fate during early mouse development. Embryogenesis is the process by which a fertilized egg, consisting of a single apparently amorphous cell, develops into the final adult form, composed of many cells arranged in structures with specific shapes. We use a variety of microscopy techniques in our investigations, but are always keen to identify new approaches to image live cells with minimal photodamage.

Please see my research pages for more information, or send me an email.