Speaker
Karin Dumstrei, PhD
Karin Dumstrei, PhD, is a senior scientific editor at The EMBO Journal and managing editor for the European Molecular Biology Organization press. Dumstrei received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, where she studied DE-cadherin mediated cell adhesion in Drosophila in the lab of Volker Hartenstein. She then went to the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen where she worked on primordial germ cell migration in zebrafish with Erez Raz. Karin joined The EMBO Journal in 2005.