Member Spotlight: Yogesh Goyal, PhD

Name:

Title:

Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology | Investigator, Chan Zukerberg Biohub Chicago

Year joined FSM:

2022

Can you say a few words about yourself and your work at Northwestern?

We are a curiosity-driven laboratory working on a range of problems in single-cell systems biology. We combine novel experimental, computational, and theoretical frameworks to monitor, perturb, model, and ultimately control single-cell variabilities and emergent fate choices in development and disease.

Describe the impact your work or research project has on the broader community at Northwestern.

I have loved mentoring and training students and postdocs at northwestern in interdisciplinary approaches. I believe my trainees are fearless when it comes to taking up new problems in biology.

Describe something you wish you knew when you moved to Chicago.

How amazing Chicago is! Chicago might be the best city I have lived in in the USA. And my colleagues within CDB and Northwestern broadly are so friendly and supportive!

What is your favorite summer activity?

Playing beach volleyball with my lab in local Chicago leagues!

If you could collaborate with (or meet) any scientist, living or deceased, who would it be and why?

Max Delbruck -- because the experiments he did which got him the Nobel Prize I think were at least a few decades ahead of their time. He, together with Salvador Luria, could say a lot about DNA mutation rate in 1940s, which is 10 years before DNA structure was discovered.