iPSCs from Diverse Species

Dr. Alexander Birbrair received his bachelor’s biomedical degree from Santa Cruz State University in Brazil. He completed his PhD in Neuroscience, in the field of stem cell biology, at the Wake Forest School of Medicine under the mentorship of Osvaldo Delbono. Then, he joined as a postdoc in stem cell biology at Paul Frenette’s laboratory at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. In 2016, he was appointed faculty at Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, where he started his own lab. His laboratory is interested in understanding how the cellular components of different tissues function and control disease progression. His group explores the roles of specific cell populations in the tissue microenvironment by using state-of-the-art techniques. His research is funded by the Serrapilheira Institute, CNPq, CAPES, and FAPEMIG. In 2018, Alexander was elected affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), and, in 2019, he was elected member of the Global Young Academy (GYA), and in 2021, he was elected affiliate member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Current Tissue Microenvironment Reports, and Associate Editor of Molecular Biotechnology. Alexander also serves in the editorial board of several other international journals: Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cells and Development, and Histology and Histopathology.

• 1. Human iPSCs and Their Uses in Developmental Toxicology2. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Non-Human Primates3. Equine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells4. Canine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: An In Vitro Approach to Validate the Dog as a Large Animal Model for Alzheimer’s Disease5. Porcine iPSCs6. Bovine iPSC and applications in precise genome engineering7. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Buffalo8. Establishment of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell from Prairie Vole Derived Fibroblast9. Rabbit Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: The Challenges10. Naked Mole Rat iPSCs and Their Non-Canonical Features: A Novel Tool for Aging Research11. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Species Conservation: Advantages, Applications and the Road Ahead

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