Academic interests
One of the goals of research in neurobiology is to repair or regenerate neurons after damage to the brain or spinal cord. Before we can understand how to repair the nervous system, however, we must first learn how the nervous system is put together.

Neurons are produced by multipotent precursors called stem cells. The aim of our work is to identify the genes that direct the different behaviours of stem cells and their progeny in the developing nervous system. It may then become possible to induce stem cells to generate new neurons at will, or induce neurons to regenerate, so as to repair the brain after injury or disease.