Dr. Sepand Rastegar, Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems (IBCS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Dr. Sepand Rastegar studied Biology at the University of Strasbourg, France, where he obtained his diploma degree in 1996. Dr. Sepand Rastegar completed his PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Walter Knöchel at the University of Ulm, Germany. In 2000, Dr. Sepand Rastegar moved back to Strasbourg to do 2 years of post-doctoral research with Prof. Uwe Strähle at the IGBMC. In 2002, Dr. Sepand Rastegar obtained a permanent position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). In 2005, Dr. Sepand Rastegar moved to Germany to work at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Currently, Dr. Sepand Rastegar is investigating the molecular mechanisms that regulate zebrafish neurogenesis and regeneration. His models are the embryonic spinal cord and the adult telencephalon. His full list of publications is available at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4411-5646.

Dr. Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, Norway

Dr. Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi’s research program is inspired by the multi-disciplinary expertise she has acquired during her scientific career. Dr. Jurisch-Yaksi first studied biology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Later, she worked on transcription regulation and paracrine signaling involved in cell survival (PhD, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany), high-throughput drug screens and chemical biology to interfere with germ cell differentiation (postdoc, Harvard Medical School, USA), and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases (postdoc, VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium). Since 2015, Dr. Jurisch-Yaksi has been leading her own team, first as a Senior Team Leader within the Yaksi Lab (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, Norway), and since 2019, as a fully independent Group Leader at NTNU’s Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine. Over the years, Dr. Jurisch-Yaksi’s team has developed a multidisciplinary approach combining state-of-the-art cellular and molecular biology, genetics, and system neuroscience tools with high-end microscopy and quantitative data analysis to study cell and organ physiology, fluid dynamics and animal behavior.

Dr. Christine Charvet, Center for Neuroscience, Delaware State University, United States

Christine Charvet is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Neuroscience at Delaware State University. Christine acquired her postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at Harvard Medical School and statistical genetics at Cornell University. Her research program leverages big data in genetics and neuroimaging to address fundamental questions in developmental and comparative neuroscience while providing practical applications to the biomedical community. For example, Christine and her colleagues developed a resource with which to find corresponding ages across humans and model organisms (https://translatingtime.org). This resource is often used by researchers who study model organisms (e.g., mice) and need to translate their findings to humans. Christine is funded by the National Institute of Health and has published 33 articles in her field. Her appointment at Delaware State University is part of a cross-institutional NIH-funded effort to enhance the research infrastructure of Delaware and increase diversity in biomedical sciences.

Speaker/Presentation

Time in CEST

Dr. Sepand Rastegar

Chair Introduction

5:00 – 5:05 pm

Dr. Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi

Diversity and Function of Motile Ciliated Cell Types Within Ependymal Lineages of the Zebrafish Brain

5:05 – 5:45 pm

Q&A

5:45 – 6:00 pm

Dr. Christine Charvet

Integrating Neuroimaging With Transcriptomics Traces the Evolution of Development in the Human and Non-Human Primate Brain

6:00 – 6:40 pm

Q&A

6:40 – 6:55 pm

Closing of Webinar
Dr. Sepand Rastegar

6:55 – 7:00 pm