Affiliation: University of California San Francisco, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology

Torsten Wittmann is a professor in the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at the University of California, San Francisco. Research in the Wittmann lab focuses on how the microtubule cytoskeleton organizes intracellular structure and controls complex cell dynamics such as migration, polarity, and division, which are critical to normal and pathological cell biology. Prof. Wittmann received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg/ European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1999 and since then has worked on many aspects of intracellular dynamics utilizing advanced live-cell microscopy and optogenetics approaches.