Ivan Candido-Ferreira

Ivan is a joint postdoc with Alejandro Sánchez-Alvarado’s lab (Stowers Institute). Ivan is working on regeneration in the tropical burrowing marine worm Ptychodera flava, a group of rather strange enteropneust hemichordates from French Polynesia that can fully regenerate their brain. His work combines single-cell genomics, molecular biology and bioinformatics to reconstruct the key molecular events and cell-types controlling nervous system regeneration. Before joining the Sánchez-Alvarado & Lowe labs, Ivan obtained a PhD from the University of Oxford in the UK, where he worked with Tatjana Sauka-Spengler on the development and evolution of the vertebrate neural crest. Ivan is an enhancer aficionado and love weird marine creatures.