SGS: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco - tba.
Max Planck Special Guest Lecture Series
- Date: Nov 5, 2026
- Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
- Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Location: MPI-IE
- Room: Lecture Hall
- Host: Meike Wiese (Akhtar Lab)
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco is Professor of Glial Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden, where his lab combines single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and epigenomics with CRISPR-based screens to investigate the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that define oligodendrocyte lineage cells, and their role in neuroinflammatory and demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis.