Stem Cells Heterogeneity - Novel Concepts

Alexander Birbrair received his Bachelor’s Biomedical degree from Santa Cruz State University in Brazil. He moved to North Carolina, where he finished his PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Osvaldo Delbono. Then, he joined as a posdoc in Stem Cell Biology at Paul Frenette’s laboratory at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. 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. In 2018, Alexander was elected affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC).

• Stem cells heterogeneity.- Heterogeneity in epiblast stem cells.- Progenitor cell heterogeneity in the adult carotid body germinal niche.- Planarian stem cell heterogeneity.- The cellular origin of Barrett’s esophagus and its stem cells.- Pluripotent stem cell heterogeneity.- Sarcoma stem cell heterogeneity.- Heterogeinity in adipose derived stem cells.- Unveiling stem cell heterogeneity towards the development of salivary gland regenerative strategies.- Heterogeneity of human mesenchymal stromal/stem cells.- Mitochondrial heterogeneity in stem cells.- The heterogeneity of renal stem cells, and their interaction with bio- and nano-materials.- Index.