Sara Nolbrant, PhD

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Sara Nolbrant is a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She earned her PhD in Malin Parmar’s lab at Lund University, where she worked on multiple avenues for cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease. In 2020, Sara joined Alex Pollen’s lab at UCSF, where she has combined innovations in human, chimpanzee, orangutan and macaque stem cell differentiation, pooled interspecies organoid models, and single-cell genomics, to study the evolution of the human dopamine system and the vulnerability of these neurons in human-enriched disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

Presentation(s):

• THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING I

  Friday, July 12, 2024
  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

• INTERSPECIES ORGANOIDS REVEAL HUMAN-SPECIFIC MOLECULAR FEATURES OF DOPAMINERGIC NEURON DEVELOPMENT AND VULNERABILITY

  Friday, July 12, 2024
  1:55 PM – 2:05 PM CEST