Genomic Research in Neurobiology

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in -omics and sequencing technologies, even at the single-neuron level, enable the extraordinary multilevel profiling of neuronal physiology, responses to acute insults, pharmacological treatments, and pathological settings. In addition, genome-wide association studies have provided unprecedented insights into complex psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and autism, among others, but also neurodegenerative diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems.

As further advances are expected to yield even more and likely increasingly refined information on potential disease-linked polymorphisms and the global transcriptional, post-transcriptional, translational, and signaling responses of neurons, methods and experimental systems as well as models are needed to validate and expand these findings. This Special Issue of “Genomic Research in Neurobiology” will focus on, but will not be limited to, novel -omics technological developments and findings, their computational treatment, and novel model systems for their biological validation. In addition, we aim to host novel validated -omics approaches that enhance our understanding of hallmark physiological functions of the nervous system, such as the multiple types of learning and memory that characterize it.

This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Dr. Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis, Dr. Katerina Papanikolopoulou and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Chih-Wei Zeng (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center).

Prof. Dr. Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis
Dr. Katerina Papanikolopoulou
Guest Editors

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