Genomics Lite: How many cells do I have?
In this Genomics Lite we'll explore the cells required to build a human.
To build complex lifeforms requires lots of different cells working together. Though all cells in an organism have nearly the same DNA code, they differentiate or specialise to do particular jobs. This episode explores not only the number of cells in a body, but how this differentiation works and how scientists study it.
About our speakers:
Ana Paredes, Postdoctoral Researcher, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Ana is a postdoctoral researcher in Roser Vento’s lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She completed her B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences in Spain. Her research focuses on advancing our understanding of women’s health, particularly how the placenta develops during early pregnancy. To this end, Ana combines single-cell and spatial omics technologies with advanced in vitro models to investigate the molecular biology underlying healthy and diseased pregnancy physiology.
Jimmy Lee, Senior Data Scientist, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Jimmy is a senior data scientist in Omer Bayraktar’s lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. His research is at the intersection of machine learning, molecular biology, cellular neuroscience, genetics, and genomics. He developed innovative research idea to advance spatial genomics to understand human neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration.
