Research Interests
- Neuroscience
- Bioinformatics & Data science
- Astrocytes & Cellular diversity in the brain
Research Synopsis
My postdoctoral work has shed light on a major question facing neuroscience: What is the source of cellular diversity in the brain?
By using a wide range of techniques, I have found that specialized glial cells known as astrocytes, requires persistent signaling from adjacent neurons to take on the specific molecular and physiological properties. Because of my work we now know that astrocytes in the adult brain are more phenotypically flexible than previously thought and that the cellular diversity of the brain is not solely established during development. These novel findings have changed the way that we see cellular diversity of the adult brain and have far reaching implications in both health and disease.
