Alan Rodrigues

Alan Rodrigues is a Research Assistant Professor at The Rockefeller University, where he co-directs the Laboratory of Morphogenesis alongside Dr. Amy Shyer. Rodrigues is a life scientist who studies how organ structures self-organize during embryogenesis as well as disease. His research takes a holistic, biophysical approach to morphogenesis: he investigates how emergent properties arise at the level of cellular collectives and how these properties enable epigenetic processes capable of producing ordered tissue patterns and organ architecture. His work has revealed new ways of thinking about how tissue form emerges and has reconceived the role that genes play in this process.