Veronique Miron did her PhD at McGill University in Montreal under the supervision of Dr. Antel and Dr. Kennedy. After graduating in 2009, she continued in the group of Dr. Antel as Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2010 she moved to the Medical Research Council Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She stayed until 2013 in the groups of Prof. Ffrench-Constant and Prof....
Despite similar brain organization mammals present with a variety of neocortex sizes, which are generated during a short developmental window in embryogenesis. The final neuronal output is determined by the initial pool size and proliferative capacity of various cell lineages as well as by the length of the neurogenic period.
In our study we explore the previously proposed link (Lewitus et...