The laboratory uses genetic, biochemical, and cell biological approaches to explore the pathogenesis of polyglutamine neurodegenerative diseases and Rett syndrome, and to study genes essential for normal neurodevelopment.
About Us
Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi is a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology and Neuroscience at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø. She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital.
A new computational tool has been designed to make the life of bench scientists easier when it comes to identifying genes that are involved in particular diseases, an arduous and time consuming process.
In her laboratory at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, Dr. Huda Zoghbi and her colleagues have found two neuronal lineages in the hindbrain that act as ‘conductors’ of an exquisite biological symphony.