Binyam Mogessie, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Biography
Binyam Mogessie is faculty in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University.
Binyam was born and raised in Ethiopia and moved to Germany where he studied biochemistry and cell biology at Jacobs University Bremen. He then moved to the UK for his PhD first at the Marie Curie Research Institute in Surrey and later at the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology in Warwick, where he investigated the molecular mechanisms that organize the microtubule cytoskeleton during skeletal muscle differentiation and cell division. After receiving his PhD in cell biology from the University of London, he joined the MRC-LMB in Cambridge (and later at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany), where he discovered a function of the actin cytoskeleton in accurate chromosome segregation during female . In 2019, Binyam established his independent research laboratory as a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale fellow and HFSP Young Investigator at the University of Bristol. He joined the Yale MCDB faculty in July 2022 where his lab continues mechanistic cell biology studies of female meiosis and reproductive longevity.
Appointments
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryObstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Genomics, Genetics, and Epigenetics
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
- Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Stem Cell Center
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (2017)
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (2015)
- PhD
- University of London, Institute of Cancer Research, Cell Biology (2011)
- BSc
- Jacobs University Bremen, Biochemistry and Cell Biology (2007)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
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Nuclear Actin Filaments Envelope Chromatin
Super-resolution microscopy image showing stable actin filaments (Green) in the nucleus of a mouse oocyte closely interacting with chromatin (Magenta).
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Yale University
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, 266 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
United States