Biography
Kirstin Meyer is an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and a member of the Systems Biology Institute. She received her doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Technical University Dresden in Germany, where she worked on organ size control during liver regeneration. In her postdoctoral work in Orion Weiner’s lab at the University of California San Francisco, she studied the logic of temporal information decoding for gene regulation and stem cell fate. In 2024, she started at Yale, where her lab seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms of emergent gene regulatory behavior. Her research focuses on the role of chromatin biophysics for temporal signal decoding and mechanosensing in the context of embryonic cell fate specification.