User:Rada

Rada Massarwa is a participant of the EMBO practical course Light sheet microscopy 2014.

I am Rada, a staff scientist at Yaqub Hanna's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. One of my main projects is to develop innovative live imaging techniques to visualize mouse embryogenesis in real time ex-utero. During my postdoc at the Niswander lab at the US, I developed a novel, prolonged and robust live imaging system for visualizing the development of a variety of embryonic tissues in the midgestation mouse embryo (E8-E10). Currently, I am continuing to develop additional culture and imaging system to cover advanced developmental stages during mouse embryogenesis. In addition, I am using both live and still imaging to study the behavior and contribution of human naive Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs), injected into mouse embryo at early developmental stages, to different tissues and organs, in the context of the whole embryo. Finally, I am interested in studying the migration and maturation of Primordial Germ Cells (PGCs) in the mouse embryo, an issue that is still poorly understood. During the course I am hoping to explore the potential of SPIM to visualize deep mouse embryonic tissues at different developmental stages.