Affiliation: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON - Canada

Dr. Deivid C. Rodrigues is a Research Associate in the James Ellis Lab, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. With a background in RNA metabolism, he has been studying gene regulation with particular emphasis on post-transcriptional pathways in neurodevelopmental models since 2012. Dr. Rodrigues received his PhD in Biophysics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, where he studied the gene regulation of stress response in protozoan parasites. Currently, Dr. Rodrigues is studying human neurodevelopment using iPSC-derived neuron models, where he applies multi-OMICS approaches to uncover important aspects of neurogenesis and its disorders.