Professor Magdalena Götz is the Head of Department of Physiological Genomics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München and Director of the Stem Cell Institute at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. She completed her doctoral thesis in 1992 and has held postdoctoral positions at the Friedrich-Miescher Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Tübingen, the National Institute for Medical Research in London and at Smith-Kline Beecham in Harlow.

She established her research group at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology in München-Martinsried in 1997 and was appointed professor at Helmholtz Zentrum München in 2004. Her research in neuroscience revolves around understanding adult neurogenesis in health and disease, and how this understanding can be leveraged to promote posttraumatic neuronal regeneration. She has published extensively on the relationship between different types of neurons and glial cells, on neural stem cells and on neuronal injury and regeneration. She was elected an EMBO Member in 2006 and has received numerous awards, including the Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2007 and most recently the Ernst Schering Prize in 2014.

Magdalena Götz^{EMBO Keynote Lecture}
Head of Department of Physiological Genomics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München and Director of the Stem Cell Institute at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Professor Magdalena Götz is the Head of Department of Physiological Genomics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München and Director of the Stem Cell Institute at the Helmholtz Zentrum München. She completed her doctoral thesis in 1992 and has held postdoctoral positions at the Friedrich-Miescher Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Tübingen, the National Institute for Medical Research in London and at Smith-Kline Beecham in Harlow. She established her research group at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology in München-Martinsried in 1997 and was appointed professor at Helmholtz Zentrum München in 2004. Her research in neuroscience revolves around understanding adult neurogenesis in health and disease, and how this understanding can be leveraged to promote posttraumatic neuronal regeneration. She has published extensively on the relationship between different types of neurons and glial cells, on neural stem cells and on neuronal injury and regeneration. She was elected an EMBO Member in 2006 and has received numerous awards, including the Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2007 and most recently the Ernst Schering Prize in 2014.	Selected publications Glial cells generate neurons: the role of the transcription factor Pax6. Nico Heins, Paolo Malatesta, Francesco Cecconi, Masato Nakafuku, Kerry Lee Tucker, Michael A. Hack, Prisca Chapouton, Yves-Alain Barde & Magdalena Götz Nature Neuroscience, Volume 5, 308–315 (2002) Neuronal fate determinants of adult olfactory bulb neurogenesis. Michael A Hack, Armen Saghatelyan, Antoine de Chevigny, Alexander Pfeifer, Ruth Ashery-Padan, Pierre-Marie Lledo & Magdalena Götz Nature Neuroscience, Volume 8, 865-872 (2005) Fast clonal expansion and limited neural stem cell self-renewal in the adult subependymal zone. Calzolari F., Michel J., Baumgart E., Theis F., Götz M.* and Ninkovic J.* Nature Neuroscience, Volume 4, 490-492 (2015) Time-Specific Effects of Spindle Positioning on Embryonic Progenitor Pool Composition and Adult Neural Stem Cell Seeding. Falk S., Bugeon S., Ninkovic J., Pilz G.-A., Postiglione M.-P., Cremer H., Knoblich J.A. and Götz M. Neuron, Volume 93, 771-791 (2017) The centrosome protein AKNA regulates neurogenesis via microtubule organization. Germán Camargo Ortega, Sven Falk, Pia A. Johansson, Elise Peyre, Loïc Broix, Sanjeeb Kumar Sahu, William Hirst, Thomas Schlichthaerle, Camino De Juan Romero, Kalina Draganova, Stanislav Vinopal, Kaviya Chinnappa, Anna Gavranovic, Tugay Karakaya, Thomas Steininger, Juliane Merl-Pham, Regina Feederle, Wei Shao, Song-Hai Shi, Stefanie M. Hauck, Ralf Jungmann, Frank Bradke, Victor Borrell, Arie Geerlof, Simone Reber, Vijay K. Tiwari, Wieland B. Huttner, Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, Laurent Nguyen & Magdalena Götz Nature, Volume 567, 113-117 (2019)