My lab focuses on combining bioengineering, stem cell technologies and neuroscience to create complex models of the nervous system. We use these modelling platform to both discover new fundamental mechanisms in neurobiology, and to better understand the molecular chains of event that lead to neurodegeneration. Our interdisciplinary team focuses on a range of projects that seek to uncover the "engineering principles" of neurons, glia and complex circuitry, both to uncover new fundamental knowledge and to create new tools to model neural circuitry in vitro.