Pioneer in Computational Neuroscience and Brain Cell Mapping
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneTrygve Bakken is an Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, where he joined in 2013 to study gene expression patterns in primate brain development. After studying physics and philosophy at Yale and the London School of Economics, he pursued his interest in the biological understanding of mind at UC San Diego, earning both an M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience under Charles Stevens and Nicholas Schork. His research combines computational analysis with single-cell transcriptomics to understand neuropsychiatric disorders and human brain evolution. At the Allen Institute, he focuses on analyzing high-dimensional spatiotemporal gene expression patterns in the developing primate brain, contributing to the creation of a comprehensive catalog of neuron types in the human brain. His work leverages these data to gain insights into genes implicated in human evolution and neuropsychiatric disease, particularly through the analysis of single cell transcriptomes.