Connecting the dots: tau, astrocytes and neurodegeneration

Kathryn Bowles started her lab at the UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh (UK) in September 2022. Her research primarily focuses on tauopathies, with an interest in anything related to tau, the MAPT gene or the whole 17q21.31 genetic locus. At the moment, her work largely focuses on developing iPSC models of neurons, astrocytes, microglia and organoids. Alongside this, Kathryn’s lab has a small genomics branch, which is interested in how genetic ancestry affects the structure of the 17q21.31 locus and how it might affect function. Kathryn was recently awarded a US$500,000 grant by the Rainwater Charitable...