Image of the Month: Neurons in a Huntington’s brain
The image this month is a view through the microscope of neurons from the brain cortex of a mouse model of Huntington’s disease. Dr. Juan Botas’s lab studies Huntington’s disease and other neurological disorders by integrating computational and wet-lab approaches in combination with experimental model systems including the fruit fly Drosophila and mice, as well as neuronal primary cultures.
“These laboratory and animal model approaches are integrated with human datasets and using network analyses allows us to nominate highly validated targets for in-depth studies using mice and human neurons,” Botas said.
Read more about research taking place at the Botas lab, here.
Dr. Juan Botas is a professor of molecular and human genetics and of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine, and an investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.
