Editing the Brain @ University of Maryland School of Medicine
Colin Robertson becomes the 3rd member of the lab to defend their PhD, in the historic Davidge Hall, the longest serving Medical Lecture Hall in America!
Colin defended his pioneering work in using Prime Editing, a reverse-transcriptase hybrid CRISPR technology, in the developing mouse brain to model individual patients with genetic epilepsies. Colin is staying on as a postdoc to translate these CRISPR technologies into clinical applications.
Congratulations Colin!!
Following a daunting quest through enchanted forests, poisonous swamps, and Neuroscience monster Bosses, Garrett Crutcher successfully defended his PhD, with his wits and his sword, against Ganon-1, the non-coding hybrid RNA he discovered in his PhD. Having fulfilled this quest, the sun shines a little brighter in the realms of UMSOM Neuroscience…
Two-out-of-two for the lab’s posters at this year’s Program in Neuroscience retreat! Colin Robertson got the “Most innovative experimental design” prize for his poster on “In Vivo Prime Editor Introduces Patient Epilepsy Mutation in the Rodent Brain to Recapitulate Seizures” and Andrea Romanowski accepted a crown and scepter for the “Rule a kingdom” prize for her poster on “Multiplexed manipulation of gene dosage of schizophrenia risk genes using Cas9 fusions changes layer position of cortical neurons”. Congrats PouLab grad students!!!
