Understanding how the brain is built, once cell at a time
Brain disorders and injuries that onset in childhood can have profound impacts.
Our mission is to understand how the brain develops so we can then unlock the underpinnings of childhood brain injury and disease.
We focus on a critical time in brain development, near the time of birth, when glial cells are produced and synapses are formed. We use an array of different techniques to ask how diverse cell types and functions are produced during this time. These include single-cell based methods, lineage tracing and cell culture studies.
What's New?
Sep 2025 - He Huang's paper on Galectin-9 and Neural Stem Cells posted to BioRxiv.
May 2025 - Scott presents the lab's work at the "Stem Cells, Brain Development and Regeneration" satellite meeting while He Huang presents a poster at the main meeting
Mar 2025 - Danyon Harkins publishes his work on the early postnatal brain in Stem Cell Reports. Congrats!
Jul 2024 - Stephanie Ouzikov and Kyshona Edwards' paper is published in Communication Biology. Congrats!
Contact: scott.yuzwa@utoronto.ca