Hadjivasiliou Lab

One of our core interests is the process of development where organisms grow from a single cell to an adult body of well-defined and reproducible size, shape and morphology. We study the developmental machineries that underlie this remarkable transformation in size and organisation.

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Understanding the mechanisms that control animal growth and patterning can also help explain how the enormous diversity we see across the tree of life has emerged. To do this, our lab examines how developmental machineries mutate and evolve to yield changes and novelty in animal morphology.

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We like to work with experimental collaborators to identify new areas of study and test the predictions of our theoretical work. To learn more about our research interests click here. 

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We are based at the Francis Crick Institute and are affiliated with the Biological Physics Group at the Physics and Astronomy Department at UCL and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.