Genomics

Genomic analysis of rare mutations leading to neurodegeneration in Colombia.

Affiliated Researchers

Kenneth S. Kosik

Principal Investigator

Exploration of fundamental biological processes, particularly those related to the brain and its evolution.

Stem Cells and Neurodevelopment

Cellular Neurobiology and Pathobiology

Neurophysiology

Juliana Acosta-Uribe

Project Scientist

Ancestral origins and phenotype-genotype correlation of tauopathies in admixed populations.

Andrew Longhini

Postdoctoral Researcher

Neurodegeneration, RNA biology, lncRNA, tau protein, LLPS.

Stem Cells and Neurodevelopment

Cellular Neurobiology and Pathobiology

Guojing Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Exploring the regulatory cascades for neurodevelopment and stem cell differentiation and functionality of retrotransposons.

Stem Cells and Neurodevelopment

Sarah Eger

Graduate Student Researcher

Studying the functional genomics of Alzheimer’s Disease, using single cell transcriptomics and next-generation and long-read sequencing.<

Cellular Neurobiology and Pathobiology

Collaborators

J. Nicholas Cochran (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology), Mahdi Golkaram (UCSB), Sarah Spendlove (UCLA), Jae Hoon Sul (UCLA), Francisco Lopera (University of Antioquia, Colombia)