Benjamin Deneen, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, United States

Benjamin Deneen, PhD. Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery
I received my B.S. in Genetics from the University of California Davis, where I studied fly meiosis in Dr. Scott Hawley’s laboratory. I completed my Ph.D. at UCLA working in the laboratory of Dr. Chris Denny, where I studied the EWS/FLI1 translocation, an aberrant transcription factor that drives Ewing’s Sarcoma. For my post-doctoral studies, I shifted my focus to developmental neurobiology and worked in Dr. David Anderson’s laboratory at Cal-Tech. During my post-doc I identified key transcriptional regulators that control developmental gliogenesis. In January 2009 I started my laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine, in the Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and Department of Neurosurgery. I am interested in all things related to glial biology and have assembled an amazing team of students, post-docs, and technicians who share my passion for all things glial and cancer neuroscience related.