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Brain Matters
The ‘Brain Matters’ temporary tattoo was designed for the Bayin lab group to represent their research as part of the Tattoo my Science project.
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Brain Matters
To many people’s surprise the majority of the neurons of the brain is situated in a small structure called the cerebellum. To make things even cooler the cerebellum is one of the few places in the brain, which has a significant regenerative potential!
Unravelling this regenerative potential is a major research goal for the Bayin Lab. Take a tattoo and show the support for cerebellar research – careful, though, it might regrow if you try to get rid of it!
Bayin Lab Group
Molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell behaviours and age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain
Our lab is interested in answering two overarching questions:
1. What are the cellular and molecular mechanisms that enable regeneration in the neonates and inhibit in the adult?
2. Can we facilitate regeneration in the brain?
Using neonatal cerebellum as a paradigm, our goal is to answer fundamental questions about neural stem cells and their behaviours using:
1. Genetically-engineered mouse models
2. Single cell genomics
3. In vivo injury models and in vitro stem cell assays
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