Lab Members
Farooqi’s focus is on molecular and cellular pathogenesis of ultra-rare pediatric neurogenetic disorders. Research includes using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells to generate brain organoids and cortical neurons for disease modeling that can assist in understanding neurodevelopmental (GAND and SAS) and neurodegenerative disease (CLN6), and for high throughput drug screening.
As an undergraduate at Cal Poly, Madeline worked to develop the synthesis of an alkoxyamine-containing linker to allow biochemical assays to be run on acylated proteins. Madeline is currently using patient-derived iPSCs to model rare pediatric neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, type IV.
Marguerite Jackson is working on her master’s degree in biotechnology with an emphasis in stem cell technology and lab management from California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI). Her studies focus on differentiating induced pluripotent stem cells and modeling of neurodevelopmental disorders in neurons, with a focus on SATB2-associated syndrome.
Oza is working on her master’s in biotechnology with emphasis in stem cell technology and lab management from California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI). Her studies focus on differentiating induced pluripotent stem cells and modeling of neurodegenerative disorders in IPSC-derived I3N-neurons, with a focus on neuronal ceroid lipofucsinosis, type VI.
Alumni Lab Members
- Brooke Hjelm, PhD
- Jaemin Kim, PhD
- Yogesh Kushwaha, MS
- David Nonis, PhD
- Jane Tian, MD
- Gaby Otero, PhD
- Phil Kenny, PhD
- Haramritpreet Kaur, MS