Dr Andrea Serio Dr Andrea Serio (Kings College London) presents his work on combining bioengineering, stem cell technologies and neuroscience to create complex models of the nervous system. Hosted by Dr Chris Spicer.

Dr Andrea Serio

Andrea first trained in Biotechnology at the University of Padova in 2003, before moving to the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan in 2006 to pursue a MSc in Medical and Cellular Biotechnology. He then joined the University of Edinburgh in 2009, where he was awarded a studentship to work on patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) platforms to model glial neuronal interactions in genetic forms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). After obtaining his PhD he then joined Prof. Molly Stevens lab at Imperial College London in 2013 as a postdoctoral research associate, and worked on establishing novel modelling platforms for neural circuits combining stem cell differentiation, tissue engineering and novel imaging approaches. He was appointed a lectureship at King's College London in September 2017, and moved to the Francis Crick institute in Nov 2019 for his secondment, where he established the neural circuit bio-engineering (NCB) group.

At KCL, Andrea's lab focuses on combining bioengineering, stem cell technologies and neuroscience to create complex models of the nervous system. They use these modelling platforms to both discover new fundamental mechanisms in neurobiology, and to better understand the molecular chains of event that lead to neurodegeneration. His interdisciplinary team focuses on a range of projects that seek to uncover the "engineering principles" of neurons, glia and complex circuitry, both to uncover new fundamental knowledge and to create new tools to model neural circuitry in vitro.