I am a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia-based faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at UPenn. The focus of my laboratory concerns the molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern the development of the mammalian forebrain. We use mouse genetics, forebrain slice and dissociated culture techniques, as well as mouse and human pluripotent stem cells in cell culture and transplantation experiments to study the fate determination of interneurons of the cerebral cortex.

Dr. Warren received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2005 from the University of Miami and is currently an associate professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, and special education at Vanderbilt University. He is the executive director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s (VKC) Treatment and Research Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), autism clinical services within the Division of Developmental Medicine at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, and serves as co-PI of the Autism Speaks – Autism Treatment Network at Vanderbilt.

Dr. Head received her B.Sc., MA and PhD in neuroscience from the University of Toronto, Canada.  She completed a postdoctoral position at the University of California at Irvine and remained as an assistant professor in residence, where she was the Director of the Brain Tissue Repository and served as Co-Leader of the Alzheimer Disease Center Neuropathology Core. The Head laboratory is dedicated to the understanding of aging and Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome. 

Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, PhD Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, PhD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine   About the Speaker: Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman…