During brain development, highly diverse neurons and glial cells are generated from a limited pool of neural stem cells (NSCs). To generate this complexity, NSCs acquire features to generate different daughter cells in different developmental time windows, a phenomenon known as temporal patterning. I am interested in deciphering fundamental mechanisms of temporal patterning of NSCs, taking advantage of the simple and genetically powerful model <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em>.

During brain development, highly diverse neurons and glial cells are generated from a limited pool of neural stem cells (NSCs). To generate this complexity, NSCs acquire features to generate different daughter cells in different developmental time windows, a phenomenon known as temporal patterning. I am interested in deciphering fundamental mechanisms of temporal patterning of NSCs, taking advantage of the simple and genetically powerful model <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em>.