CHRISTIAN MAYER
Lab Profile
Neurogenomics
The brain relies on an enormous diversity of local interneurons to form specialized circuits with remarkable processing capacities. Yet how different interneuron types emerge during development and integrate into functional circuits remains unclear.
Using genetic fate mapping strategies combined with statistical and machine learning-based methods, our goal is to elucidate the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that drive cellular decision-making during interneuron development. We are using high-throughput single cell RNA-sequencing methods to reconstruct developmental trajectories and are building an integrated framework to understand how a cell’s spatial localization, epigenomic landscape, parental lineage and neural network activity influence its behavior and fate.
- neuroscience
- development
- diversification
- telencephalon
- inhibition
Institution Name
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Institution Short Name
MPIN
Institution Address
Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Munich, Germany
Institution Website
Team
Principal Investigator
Christian Mayer
Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Department of Neurogenomics Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried (Munich), Germany
Tel.:+49 (0) 9313181341