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

Graduate Student Researcher

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

Linying Lu

Junior Specialist

Bioinformatics, Microelectrode Array (MEA) recording data analysis, Propagation signal and synaptic coupling identification.

Hongjun (Robin) Zhou

Postdoctoral Researcher

MicroRNA regulations; Brain development; Single cells; Brain mapping; Neurological disease; Neuroscience; Bioinformatics; Genomics and Evolution.

Collaborators

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