Core Leader, Zebrafish
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Adam Amsterdam received his BA in biochemistry from Brown University in 1989 and his PhD in biology from MIT in 1998, where he trained with Nancy Hopkins. During his graduate studies and subsequent postdoctoral work in Hopkins' lab, he led a large-scale insertional mutagenesis screen identifying hundreds of genes required for vertebrate embryonic development and collaborated with many other labs in the US and abroad to further characterize the effect of these mutations. Beginning in 2002 as a research scientist in the labs of Nancy Hopkins and Jacqueline Lees, he developed and studied a number of genetic cancer models in zebrafish. While continuing research in Lees’ lab, he has also been the Core Leader for the Koch Institute Zebrafish Facility since 2011.