Ali Seleit is an Emmy Noether-funded junior group leader at the Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies (CIBSS) and the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Ali has a deep love for the shoreline and a strong aversion to cold weather—making his decision to establish the lab in Germany's sunniest city a natural fit.
He obtained his Master's degree in Stem Cells and Developmental Biology from the University of Heidelberg. He then joined the lab of Lazaro Centanin at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, where he worked on the development and evolution of the lateral line in fish. Following this, Ali completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Alexander Aulehla at EMBL Heidelberg, focusing on segmentation clock dynamics and developmental timing in medaka and related species.
Scientific Heroes: Pere Alberch, Stephen Jay Gould, Susan Lindquist, Hilde Mangold, Nikolai Vavilov, J.B.S. Haldane, Sydney Brenner, Karl Ernst von Baer, Nicole Le Douarin, Al-Jahiz, Ibn Sina, Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, Conrad Waddington, Tatsuo Aida and Toki-o Yamamoto.
Mantha is the Lab Manager. Born in Greece, Mantha has always loved the sea and the diverse creatures that inhabit it. Her fascination with aquatic life, and fish in particular, deepened during her PhD in Michael Dorrity's lab at EMBL, where she studied how temperature stress and disruptions in proteostasis affect zebrafish embryonic development.
Scientific Heroes: Susan Lindquist, George Somero, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, Peter Walter, and Richard Morimoto.
Bal is a PhD researcher in the lab. Raised alongside the jungles of Chitwan, Nepal, he grew up surrounded by a remarkable diversity of life forms. He is interested in understanding how changes in the timing of developmental processes have given rise to diversity of vertebrates, which he investigates using different medaka species.
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