Principal Investigator: Sacha B. Nelson
Brandeis University
Title: Combining genetics, genomics, and anatomy to classify cell types across mammals”
BRAIN Category: Census of Cell Types (RFA MH-14-215)

To gain a deeper understanding of how cells have evolved specialized features, Dr. Nelson and colleagues will create transgenic strains of rats and mice that carry identical genetic modifications in many different cell types and see how the properties of these cells diverge across species.