Johan Jakobsson, PhD

Johan Jakobsson, PhD, is a Professor of neuroscience at the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University, Sweden. He did his PhD in Lund, focusing on development of gene therapy strategies for the brain. After this, he did his postdoctoral training at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, focusing on transposable elements. The long-term goal of his research is to understand how gene expression is controlled at the molecular level in the brain. He is interested in how the complex gene regulatory mechanism in the human brain has evolved and how these regulatory mechanisms influence brain disorders. His lab has significant expertise in transposon biology, single-cell analysis, genome editing and bioinformatic approaches tailored to the analysis of a repetitive genomic elements and a broad range of human stem cell-based model systems. Prof. Jakobsson works in several networks with a disease-oriented focus to facilitate the use of his research in the development of new therapies.