O'Leary Lab - Personnel

Dennis D. M. O'Leary
Professor 
Vincent J. Coates Chair in Molecular Neurobiology
doleary@salk.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Senior Research Associate

Carlos joined the lab in 2005. He received his PhD at the University La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) in 2005, where he studied mechanisms regulating human cortical development. In the O'Leary lab, he is studying the mechanisms regulating cortical interneuron migrations and the role of MDGA1 in cortical development by using the mouse as a model.

Senior Research Associate

Andreas joined the O’Leary Lab in November 2007. Before that, he was studying Biology at the University of Goettingen, Germany. Subsequently, he moved to the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, where he was working in the department of Peter Gruss and got interested in investigating the role of transcription factors during development of the mammalian embryo. The further focus of his PhD-thesis at the Max Planck Institute was concentrated on dissecting the role of Sp8, a zinc-finger transcription factor, during CNS development with a special emphasis on forebrain development and pattern formation.

After obtaining the PhD degree in 2007, he joined the Salk Institute to further move ahead with his focus in the O’Leary lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Andreas’ efforts aim to understand more precisely how during embryonic development major functional subdivision of the brain and especially the cerebral cortex may be controlled through an interplay of a gene-regulatory network of fate-determining transcription factors intrinsic to the neuronal primordium.

Technicicans and Assistants

Research Assistant II

Berta has a BS is Biochemistry and Cell Biology from UCSD and has been a research assistant in the lab since 2003.

Research Assistant II

Research Administrative Assistant II