Matheo Morales

Graduate student

Matheo is a Ph.D candidate in the Noonan Lab using neural organoid models to study gene regulatory differences between human and chimpanzee neurodevelopment. Matheo joined the Noonan Lab in 2020 after receiving a dual M.S. in Genetics and Computational Mathematical Sciences at Arizona State University. His dissertation work focuses on exploring the underlying gene regulatory mechanisms that contribute to uniquely human features of the thalamus and cortex by modeling their development using neural organoids derived from human and chimpanzee induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). His work blends computational and experimental techniques, with a focus on high-dimensional analysis of single-cell sequencing data.