NEWS & EVENTS
Conte Center Posters at the 2025 Stanley Center SAB Meeting
Center trainees and investigators attended the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting held by the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Drs. Jordan Doman and Mauricio dos Santos Pereira gave short talks on their groundbreaking work with using CRISPR screens to assess the impact of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental risk genes on induced human microglial function and characterizing the effect of a bipolar risk gene on a unpredictable stress mouse model. Sang Lin and Drs. Kevin Mastro, Cherish Taylor, Jordan Doman, and Ana Gonzalez-Ramos presented their latest progress as posters on a transcriptional atlas for the adolescent pre-frontal cortex, generating tools to assess neurodevelopment and behavior in adolescent mice and marmosets, using CRISPR screens to assess the impact of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental risk genes on induced human microglial function, the effects of chronic stress on a schizophrenia mouse model, and how a schizophrenia risk gene impacts neuron-glia interactions in cell cultures. They all did a wonderful job, and we look forward to publishing these findings in the future. Congratulations to all our trainees for this opportunity to present their work!