Chromatin Signaling and Neurological Disorders

Dr. Olivier Binda is a Researcher at the University of Ottawa, specializing in epigenetics and gene expression as it relates to human diseases. Dr. Binda co-edited Chromatin Signaling and Diseases (Elsevier 2016), a volume in Elsevier’s Translational Epigenetics series, and has published 20 scientific papers in such peer reviewed journals as the Molecular Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemistry, Epigenetics, Oncogene, Scientific Reports, and Stem Cell Research. In past positions he has served as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and Stanford University, and he completed his PhD in Biochemistry at McGill University in 2007. Affiliations and expertise University of Ottawa, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Ottawa, CANADA.

1. Chromatin and epigenetic signaling pathways 2. Non-pathologic neurological development 3. Spinal muscular atrophy 4. Triplet-Repeat Neurological Diseases 5. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 6. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 7. Parkinson's disease 8. Huntington's disease 9. Multiple Sclerosis 10. Ataxia Telangiectasia 11. Cockayne Syndrome neurodevelopmental disorders 12. Angelman Syndrome and Prader-Willi Syndrome 13. Rett Syndrome 14. Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome 15. Sotos Syndrome 16. ATRX 17. Fragile X syndrome and mental retardation 18. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Asperger Syndrome 19. Schizophrenia 20. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 21. Alzheimer's disease (and other dementias) 22. Mood disorders 23. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 24. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)