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.