Dr David Keays


University position

Principle Research Associate

Dr David Keays is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Home page

http://www.keayslab.org (personal home page)

Research Themes

Developmental Neuroscience

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Interests

The Keays lab exploits cerebral organoids, 2-photon light microscopy, and in vivo genetic methods to investigate important questions in developmental and sensory neurobiology. We are interested in: (1) How mutations in the tubulin and MAST genes cause neurodevelopmental disease?; and (2) How animals detect magnetic and electric fields?

Research Focus

Keywords

organoids

microtubules

neurodevelopmental disease

monotremes

magnetoreception

Clinical conditions

Genetic disorders

Lissencephaly, microcephaly, polymicrogyria, epilepsy, corpus callosal disorders.

Equipment

3D cell culture, iDISCO, CRISPR-cas9, immunohistochemistry, molecular methods, cell culture, electrophysiology

Calcium imaging

Collaborators

Cambridge

Madeline Lancaster

Matthew Mason

International

Wolfgang Enard Web: http://enard@biologie.uni-muenchen.de

Joseph Gleeson Web: http://jogleeson@ucsd.edu

Pascal Malkemper Web: http://pascal.malkemper@mpinb.mpg.de

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