Discover ASAP

In this episode of Discover ASAP, we sit down with members of Collaborative Research Network (CRN)’s Team Voet. Olga Sigalova, PhD, postdoctoral fellow; Alexandra Pančíková, MSc, graduate student; Julie De Man, MSc, bioinformatician; and Koen Theunis, PhD, lab engineer—to discuss their work in long-read whole-genome sequencing and single-nucleus multiome atlases exploring enhancer variants.

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In this episode of Discover ASAP, Yujie Fan, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow on the Collaborative Research Network (CRN)’s Team Gradinaru, joins us to discuss a programmable self-assembling system to model intracellular protein aggregation and decode neurodegenerative diseases.

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In this episode of Discover ASAP, Armin Bayati, PhD, a research fellow on the Collaborative Research Network (CRN)’s Team Chen, joins us to discuss AutoMorphoTrack, a platform for quantitative analysis of organelle morphology, motility, and interactions at single-cell resolution. 

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In this episode of Discover ASAP, Anastasia Filimontseva, a graduate student on the Collaborative Research Network (CRN)’s Team Vila, joins us to discuss a standardized, TruAI-based platform for automated quantification of intracellular neuromelanin granules in human brain tissue.

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In this episode of Discover ASAP, Leonardo Parra-Rivas, PhD, a project scientist on the Collaborative Research Network (CRN)’s Team Gradinaru, joins us to discuss a protocol for CRISPR-based manipulation and visualization of endogenous α-synuclein in cultured mouse hippocampal neurons.

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In this episode of Discover ASAP, Juan Li, PhD, a senior clinical research associate on the Collaborative Research Network (CRN)’s Team Schlossmacher, joins us to discuss the development of a simplified smell test to help distinguish patients with Parkinson’s disease from those with other neurological diseases.

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