Bosiljka Tasic, PhD

Bosiljka Tasic is the director of Molecular Genetics at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. There, she has led an effort towards the comprehensive molecular analysis of cellular identity in the mouse brain. She has a long-standing interest in the development of novel genetic tools to enable access to specific cell populations for their functional characterization. Her team at Allen developed an approach for the discovery and utilization of genomic enhancers to create recombinant adeno-associated viruses with cell type-targeted transgene expression. Before joining Allen Institute, Bosiljka completed her postdoctoral training with Liqun Luo at Stanford University, obtained her Ph.D. with Tom Maniatis at Harvard University, and received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.