The laboratory's activities is focused in molecular mechanisms specifying embryonic cortico-cerebral precursors and regulating their proliferation-differentiation profile.
Here functional genomics is applied to describe the expression profiles of the neurons by combining different technologies, in order to investigate their contribution to physiology and dysfunction of the nervous system.
The focus of the Prion Biology Laboratory is studying prion diseases, rare and fatal neurodegenerative maladies that affect humans and animals for which there is no diagnostic tool, nor a cure.
The Computational Genomics Laboratory is interested in understanding molecular evolutionary innovations at the basis of the eukaryotic cell functioning and the evolution of complexity.
