Gerold Schubiger

Gerold Schubiger is professor in the Department of Biology and adjunct professor in the Department of Genomics at the University of Washington in Seattle (US). He was a graduate student of Ernst Hadorn at the University of Zurich, working on cell determination and transdetermination. He then moved to the University of California at Irvine where he was a post-doctoral fellow in Howard Schneiderman’s lab. There he continued to study transdetermination and found that specific regenerating cells undergo transdetermination, establishing a link between regeneration and pluripotency. In the past few years the Schubiger Lab has again picked up the study of transdetermination and has shown there is a link between pluripotency of stem cells and the unique property of the cells that can undergo transdetermination. Schubiger has expressed the hope that, in the future, model systems will provide clues to decipher how adult stem cells achieve pluripotency.