Meet our Investigators: Thomas Schwarz, PhD

I had an early fascination with genetics and cell biology and already in graduate school I wanted to see these applied to neuroscience.  Each time a gene is mapped that is responsible for an IDD, it points to another aspect of neuronal cell biology that we need to understand.  The questions are endless and the need for answers is great. We study basic neuronal cell biology and the relevance of that biology to human developmental and neurodegenerative diseases.  For many years our focus was on synapse formation and function, however that expanded to also include mechanisms of axonal transport and neuronal mitochondria.