Margot L. K. Williams

Dr. Margot Kossmann Williams is an assistant professor in the Center for Precision Environmental Health and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. She earned her B.S. from Muskingum College and her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the lab of Dr. Ann Sutherland. In 2013, Dr. Williams joined the lab of Dr. Lilianna Solnica-Krezel at Washington University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral research fellow. While there, she developed innovative optical, chromatin profiling, and explantation techniques in zebrafish to identify spatial and signaling cues regulating the cell movements that shape the emerging body plan during gastrulation. Dr. Williams joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in 2019, where she and her lab seek to understand how embryonic cell behaviors are coordinated in space and time.