Seminar: Deconstructing glia-to-neuron conversion in vivo

Title: Deconstructing glia-to-neuron conversion in vivo

Speaker: Dr. Alexis Cooper, recently joined the Pellegrini Lab at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London, where she will apply single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to study human brain development, with a specific focus on the choroid plexus.

Previously, she worked in the Berninger Lab on engineering neurogenesis through glia-to-neuron conversion, integrating molecular neurobiology with high-throughput single-cell and nuclei sequencing approaches.

During her postdoctoral research, she was also a satellite group member at the Francis Crick Institute, where she developed computational and bioinformatics skills, primarily using R and Python for single-cell data analysis.

Key words: Transcriptomics, Neuroscience, Developmental Biology