Cafe Sci: Brain Cell Atlases: Mapping the Uncharted Territory of the Brain

Cafe Sci is virtual in August. To receive the Zoom link, you must register.

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FREE and open to the public, but Cafe Sci gratefully accepts donations.

August's topic
The mammalian brain has millions to billions of cells – but what are they all doing? At the Allen Institute for Brain Science, researchers have spent years working to answer this fundamental question. In this talk, Dr. Rachel Hostetler will highlight recent efforts to catalog brain cell types across various species, including humans, through the creation of brain cell atlases. She will discuss the cutting-edge technologies used to generate these atlases and how they help scientists better understand the brain’s complexities. Dr. Hostetler will also explore how brain cell types change with aging and in disease, and how these insights are advancing neuroscience research. Finally, she will demonstrate how these open-access datasets are freely available online for researchers, educators, and the public to explore.

About Dr. Rachel Hostetler
Dr. Rachel Hostetler is a scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, where her role is to increase the accessibility of Allen Institute’s open datasets to researchers, educators, and the public. She supports researchers through workshops, tutorials, seminars, and more. With the public, she has participated in talks, hands-on activities, and podcasts to introduce the importance of open science and the kind of basic research done at the Allen Institute. Prior to working at the Institute, Dr Hostetler completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience at West Virginia University where she studied the diversity and connectivity of different neuron types in the cerebral cortex.

The event is FREE to attend virtually, but preregistration is required!