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We can learn a lot from fly brains, according to Ismael Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez, a postdoctoral fellow in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Michael Bonaguidi<\/a>.
\nFern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez is an accomplished researcher who showed that adult fruit flies have the potential for replenishing brain cells lost to disease, injury or aging. He is also one of 11 new Mexican postdoctoral fellows at USC jointly funded by the university and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00ed<\/em>a (CONACYT) \u2014 Mexico\u2019s equivalent of the National Science Foundation.
\n<\/span>\u201cOver the past five years, USC has deepened our engagement with Mexico, and CONACYT has become a wonderful partner,\u201d said Anthony Bailey, USC\u00a0vice provost for global initiatives.
\nAs a USC-CONACYT Provost Fellow, Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez will receive funding for up to two years of postdoctoral research at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine<\/a> and Stem Cell Research at USC, part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
\nPreviously, he received his bachelor\u2019s degree in chemical engineering at ITESO Jesuit University in Guadalajara in Mexico, before working in the food and pharmacological industries.
\n\u201cI realized that several steps of the industrial chemical processes reproduce those happening in cells,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I decided to move from the chemical to more biochemical processes, to eventually drive cells from an \u2018uncontrolled\u2019 diseased state to a \u2018controlled\u2019 healthy state.\u201d
\nHe began using fruit flies to study cancer during his master\u2019s degree at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Then his PhD work at the University of Bern in Switzerland showed, for the first time, that fruit flies have a remarkable regenerative capacity to produce new neurons after brain injury.
\nHe continued to work with fruit flies while studying brain tumors during his first postdoc at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Barcelona, Spain. He has now brought the buzz to the Bonaguidi Lab at USC.
\n\u201cIsmael is adding a new dimension, the fly,\u201d said Bonaguidi. \u201cOne huge advantage of flies is their high throughput nature. You can screen thousands of drug-like compounds for therapeutic purposes.\u201d
\nIn the Bonaguidi Lab, Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez is using these surging swarms of flies to find genetic factors and test drug-like compounds that may help the brain counteract degeneration from disease, aging or injury.
\n\u201cFlies are, genetically speaking, quite related to humans,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez. \u201cSixty percent of the genes causing diseases in humans are shared with flies. Along with several technical advantages, that\u2019s why it is a very suitable model organism to study the genetic causes of diseases.\u201d
\nAccelerating this research are the world-class facilities at USC\u2019s stem cell research center.
\n\u201cHere in house, we have several core facilities we can use for this purpose, like the microscopy, flow cytometry and drug screening units. In addition, we have the possibility to sequence and engineer the genome of stem cells,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez.
\nAfter his two-year postdoctoral fellowship at USC, Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez and his wife are open to opportunities anywhere in the world. Eventually, however, he hopes to start his own laboratory in Mexico, while maintaining collaborations with his USC colleagues.
\n\u201cI\u2019d like to try to collaborate there to push science and technology in the country, taking advantage of what I have learned here and there,\u201d he said. \u201cThis arrangement between the USC and CONACYT is great, because it allows Mexican researchers to come here to a distinguished university with state-of-the-art facilities to increase their knowledge and experience, which eventually benefits people in both countries. This has been a very important opportunity for me.\u201d
\nAlong with Fern\u00e1ndez-Hern\u00e1ndez, the Keck School is hosting three other USC-CONACYT Provost Fellows: Katia Gallegos-Carillo in the laboratories of Jonathan Samet and Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati; Antonia Herrera-Ortiz in the laboratory of Shou-Jiang Gao; and Jos\u00e9 Bravo in the laboratory of Ralf Langen. Other fellows are performing research at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; the USC Price School of Public Policy; and the USC Davis School of Gerontology.
\n\u201cWe at CONACYT are more than delighted to have formed this partnership with such a prestigious institution as USC,\u201d said Julia Tag\u00fce\u00f1a, CONACYT deputy director for scientific development. \u201cThe results reflect, with no doubt, the quality of the Mexican researchers and the commitment of USC to collaborate with Mexican counterparts in forming human resources that will have a direct impact on solving binational problems. 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