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Biomedical research - writing & data analyst | phD in developmental neuroscience. 7 years of experience.

Profile Summary

PhD from UCSF in biomedical sciences. My research focus is on brain development. Specifically I studied how the final number of inhibitory neurons is determined in the cerebral cortex. Ample experience in the neuroscience field, including literature knowledge, data analysis, confocal microscopy, cell transplantation and molecular biology. Familiar but not at expert with single cell transcriptomics. Speaks Spanish and English, both fluently.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Molecular Cloning
• ★ Developmental Neuroscience
• ☆ Microinjection
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ R

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing, Translation

Research User Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Analysis

Work Experience

Graduate Student Researcher

University of California, San Francisco

August 2016 - August 2022

Education

Bachelor of Science (MCDB)

University of California Los Angeles

September 2012 - June 2015

Certifications

• PhD

  UCSF

  August 2022 - Present

Publications

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Walter R Mancia Leon, David M Steffen, Fiona Dale-Huang, Benjamin Rakela, Arnar Breevoort, Ricardo Romero-Rodriguez, Andrea R Hasenstaub, Michael P Stryker, Joshua A Weiner, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (2023). The Clustered Gamma Protocadherin Pcdhγc4 Isoform Regulates Cortical Interneuron Programmed Cell Death in the Mouse Cortex .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2021). Individual human cortical progenitors can produce excitatory and inhibitory neurons . Nature.

Amy Pandya-Jones, Yolanda Markaki, Jacques Serizay, Tsotne Chitiashvili, Walter R. Mancia Leon, Andrey Damianov, Constantinos Chronis, Bernadett Papp, Chun-Kan Chen, Robin McKee, et al.(2020). A protein assembly mediates Xist localization and gene silencing . Nature. 587. (7832). p. 145--151. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Amy Pandya-Jones, Yolanda Markaki, Jacques Serizay, Tsotne Chitiashvili, Walter R. Mancia Leon, Andrey Damianov, Constantinos Chronis, Bernadett Papp, Chun-Kan Chen, Robin McKee, et al.(2020). Publisher Correction: A protein assembly mediates Xist localization and gene silencing . Nature. 586. (7830). p. E30--E30. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Walter R Mancia Leon, Julien Spatazza, Benjamin Rakela, Ankita Chatterjee, Viraj Pande, Tom Maniatis, Andrea R Hasenstaub, Michael P Stryker, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla(2020). Clustered gamma-protocadherins regulate cortical interneuron programmed cell death . eLife. 9. {eLife} Sciences Publications, Ltd

(2020). Cell stress in cortical organoids impairs molecular subtype specification . Nature.

(2017). Transplantation of GABAergic interneurons for cell-based therapy . Progress in brain research.

(2016). Zika virus cell tropism in the developing human brain and inhibition by azithromycin . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.