Binyam Mogessie, PhD

Binyam Mogessie is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University. His research focuses on the cytoskeletal and chromosomal mechanisms that ensure accurate chromosome segregation during oocyte meiosis and early embryogenesis, and their links to reproductive aging.

Originally from Ethiopia, he earned his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany. He completed his PhD in Cell Biology from the University of London, conducting research at the Marie Curie Research Institute in Surrey and the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology in Warwick. His doctoral work examined how the microtubule cytoskeleton is organized during skeletal muscle differentiation and cell division.

As a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and later at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, he discovered a novel role for the actin cytoskeleton in promoting accurate chromosome segregation during female meiosis.

In 2019, Dr. Mogessie established his independent laboratory at the University of Bristol as a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow and HFSP Young Investigator. He joined Yale University in 2022, where his lab continues to study the molecular mechanisms of female meiosis, early embryogenesis, and reproductive longevity.