Members
Onur Basak, principle investigator
A coffee loving molecular biologist pretending to be a computational scientist, and leader of my pack!
Tiziana Hey, PhD student
Generating single nuclei reference atlases of the adult mouse reward system
Keith Garner, Senior Research Technician
Assisting the group primarily with cell culture, molecular biology and genotyping. Master modified lenti- and AAV viruses. His new hobby is the cell/nuclei sorting
Abdool Al-Khaledi, BiBc – Master student
Conducting a computational analysis of single cell RNA sequencing data to better understand the Gene Regulatory Networks implicated in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Pelin Saglam-Metiner, PhD student (Yesil Celiktas lab)
Bioengineering organoids to study how Rett Syndrome alters neurodevelopmental cell fate choices
Cecile Herbermann, BiBc – Master student
Investigating how alternative spicing is (dys)regulated in glioblastoma using computational tools
Jack Chen Ji Rong Jiang, BiBc – Master student
Generating a unifying single cell atlas of the adult reward system by leveraging in-house and published single cell atlases
Nik Heijmink, Neuroscience and Cognition – Master student
Dissecting GABAergic cell diversity in the adult ventral tegmental area by imaging molecule by molecule
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