Adam Amsterdam

Adam received his BA in Biochemistry from Brown University and his PhD in Biology from MIT.  He has spent over 30 years utilizing zebrafish to probe a variety of biological questions. Working with others in Nancy 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 to further characterize the effect of these mutations.  Subsequently in the labs of Nancy Hopkins and Jacqueline Lees he developed and studied a number of genetic cancer models in zebrafish.  While in the Synthetic Neurobiology group, he contributed to many zebrafish projects. He is also the Core Leader for the Koch Institute Zebrafish Facility.