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- daniel.berg@abdn.ac.uk
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- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
BSc in Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden (2006).
PhD. (2007-2012). Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Studied brain regeneration in the Red-spotted Newt with Professor András Simon.
Postdoctoral Fellow. The Institute of Cell Engineering, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. (2012-2017). Studied adult neurogenesis under the supervision of Professor Hongjun Song (Funded by EMBO Long-Term Fellowships and Swedish research council international postdoc scholarship).
Research Associate, The Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania. (2017-2020). Continued to work with Professor Hongjun Song and studied the embryonic origin of the adult neural stem cells.
Three amazing medical breakthroughs you may not know about
BBC BITESIZE, short piece for school children on how new neurons can be made in the adult brain.
Latest Publications
An Update on Preclinical Research in Anesthetic-Induced Developmental Neurotoxicity in Nonhuman Primate and Rodent Models
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesModelling Alzheimer's Disease Using Human Brain Organoids: Current Progress and Challenges
Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, vol. 25, e3Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/erm.2022.40
Editorial: Adult neurogenesis as a regenerative strategy for brain repair
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, vol. 15, 1041009Contributions to Journals: EditorialsDifferential Timing and Coordination of Neurogenesis and Astrogenesis in Developing Mouse Hippocampal Subregions
Brain Sciences, vol. 10, no. 12, 909Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Common Embryonic Origin of Stem Cells Drives Developmental and Adult Neurogenesis
Cell, vol. 177, no. 3, pp. 654-668.e15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.010
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- Research
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Research Overview
Daniel Berg received his biology undergraduate degree from Uppsala University in his hometown Uppsala, Sweden. For his PhD, he joined the lab of Dr. András Simon at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where he studied adult neurogenesis, i.e. the generation of functional neurons in the adult brain, using the Red-spotted Newt as a model organism. Unlike mammals, many amphibians are able to regenerate body parts, including their brain, after injury. In his PhD work, Daniel identified the neural stem cells that fuel regeneration in the newt brain and examined signaling pathways that control the proliferation of these stem cells.
The dentate gyrus of mouse hippocampus at postnatal day 7, blue is nuclei marker, green is progeny of HOPX-expressing progenitor cells, and red is marker of cell proliferation.
Daniel then joined the lab of Dr. Hongjun Song, first at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and then at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia as a postdoctoral fellow. In the Song lab Daniel studied adult neurogenesis in the mouse brain and attempted to identify the different types of neural stem cells that reside in the adult mammalian brain. He also examined the developmental origin of the adult neural stem cells.
Neural stem cells in the Dentate gyrus labeled at different stages of development.
As a lecturer at The Institute of Medical Sciences, Daniel plans to study neural stem cells, both during development and in adulthood using mammalian and amphibian model systems. The overall aim of his research will be to identify mechanisms to activate endogenous neural stem cells to repair the brain after injury and disease. He will use techniques such as lineage tracing, in vivo genetic manipulation and single cell RNA-sequencing.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biomedical Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Biomedical Sciences
Accepting PhDsResearch Specialisms
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Collaborations
Dr Eunchai Kang, University of Aberdeen.
Professor Bettina Platt, University of Aberdeen.
Dr Cyrus David Mintz, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
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An Update on Preclinical Research in Anesthetic-Induced Developmental Neurotoxicity in Nonhuman Primate and Rodent Models
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesModelling Alzheimer's Disease Using Human Brain Organoids: Current Progress and Challenges
Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, vol. 25, e3Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/erm.2022.40
Editorial: Adult neurogenesis as a regenerative strategy for brain repair
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, vol. 15, 1041009Contributions to Journals: EditorialsDifferential Timing and Coordination of Neurogenesis and Astrogenesis in Developing Mouse Hippocampal Subregions
Brain Sciences, vol. 10, no. 12, 909Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Common Embryonic Origin of Stem Cells Drives Developmental and Adult Neurogenesis
Cell, vol. 177, no. 3, pp. 654-668.e15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.010
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Radial glial cells in the adult dentate gyrus: What are they and where do they come from?
F1000Research, vol. 7, 277Contributions to Journals: Review articlesBrain-Region-Specific Organoids Using Mini-bioreactors for Modeling ZIKV Exposure
Cell, vol. 165, no. 5, pp. 1238-1254Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.032
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Diversity of neural precursors in the adult mammalian brain
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, vol. 8, no. 4, a018838Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a018838
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Environmental changes in oxygen tension reveal ROS-dependent neurogenesis and regeneration in the adult newt brain
eLife, vol. 4, e08422Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSingle-Cell RNA-Seq with Waterfall Reveals Molecular Cascades underlying Adult Neurogenesis
Cell Stem Cell, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 360-372Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2015.07.013
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Tbr2-expressing intermediate progenitor cells in the adult mouse hippocampus are unipotent neuronal precursors with limited amplification capacity under homeostasis
Frontiers in Biology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 262-271Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-015-1364-0
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Progenitor cell dynamics in the newt telencephalon during homeostasis and neuronal regeneration
Stem Cell Reports, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 507-519Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeurotransmitter-mediated control of neurogenesis in the adult vertebrate brain
Development (Cambridge), vol. 140, no. 12, pp. 2548-2561Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.088005
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Microglia activation during neuroregeneration in the adult vertebrate brain
Neuroscience Letters, vol. 497, no. 1, pp. 11-16Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2011.04.007
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Dopamine controls neurogenesis in the adult salamander midbrain in homeostasis and during regeneration of dopamine neurons
Cell Stem Cell, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 426-433Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2011.02.001
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Erratum: Efficient regeneration by activation of neurogenesis in homeostatically quiescent regions of the adult vertebrate brain (Development 137 (4127-4134))
Development, vol. 138, no. 1Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.061754
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Efficient regeneration by activation of neurogenesis in homeostatically quiescent regions of the adult vertebrate brain
Development, vol. 137, no. 24, pp. 4127-4134Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.055541
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- [ONLINE] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21068061/
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Not lost in translation. Sensing the loss and filling the gap during regeneration
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 691-696Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.04.015
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