#Introduction time it is!
Hi everyone, just moved instances following really good advice (thanks @jonny ! ๐).
I'm a postdoc at the Instituto de Neurociencias (Alicante, Spain) working on the neural circuits of itch sensation at the level of the spinal cord dorsal horns and how these circuits are affected during chronic diseases cursing with pruritus (a major unmet medical need, for those of you far from this field). I'm currently analizing a #snRNAseq dataset I generated in a mouse model of chronic itch which we published a couple years ago from my work at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology (Munich, Germany) together with my then supervisor Rรผdiger Klein. The aim is to identify the specific subpopulation of neurons responsible for the madly intense scratching phenotype.
Very interested also in behavioral analysis, we are trying to identify specific motor patterns in chronic itch mouse models using #deeplearning #SLEAP pose estimation and behavioral motif classification.
My background in neurodevelopmental biology, specifically axon guidance, also pushes me towards analyzing the developmental origin of spinal neurons populations in order to understand the emergence of these circuits during embryonic stages with the idea that knowing where we come from we might better try to fix broken things!
See you all around!!
Bernhard Schermer
KaiXin
Augusto Escalante
Arjan Boltjes
Posnien Lab
Ruslan Rust