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Omer Bayraktar

Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Biography

Dr Bayraktar uses single cell and spatial transcriptomics technologies to characterize human brain cellular diversity in health and disease. During his training, Omer discovered neural stem cell patterning mechanisms (Nature 2013) and astrocyte layer diversity in the cerebral cortex (Nature Neuro 2020). Omer started his independent research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2018. His team has developed the cell2location computational tool to map fine cell types in spatial transcriptomics (Nature Biotech 2022). Omer is internationally funded by Wellcome LEAP, SFARI and CZI, and he steers spatial genomic strategy at the Sanger Institute.

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