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Genomic Insights into Human Cortical Development

Yin Shen, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, 
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Arnold Kriegstein MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, 
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences                                                                                                      

Educational Objectives:

  • Key differences between human and mouse brain development 
  • The use of brain organoids to model neurodevelopmental diseases 
  • Contribution of fetal neural progenitor cells to glioblastoma 
  • Dynamic 3D epigenome during cortical development
  • CRISPR technologies for characterizing disease-associated variants in iPSC models.

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