Education

  • The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, BSc, 2007, Biological Sciences
  • The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, PhD, 2012, Biomedical Sciences
  • University of California, San Francisco, Postdoc, 2017, Neurology

Honors & Awards

  • 2017
    Simons Foundation for Autism Research Bridge to Independence Award
  • 2017
    Broad Foundation Innovation Award
  • 2017
    Cajal Club Krieg Cortical Explorer Award
  • 2018
    NARSAD Young Investigator Award
  • 2018
    Leichtung Family Investigator
  • 2018
    Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, finalist
  • 2018
    Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
  • 2018-21
    Next Generation Leader, Allen Institute for Brain Science
  • 2021
    Scholar, Shurl & Kay Curci Foundation
  • 2021
    Investigator, Weill Neurohub
  • 2021
    Daniel X. Freedman Prize, Honorable Mention
  • 2021
    Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience Award
  • 2021
    Sontag Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award

Selected Publications

  1. Galina Popova, Hanna Retallack, Chang N Kim, Albert Wang, David Shin, Joseph L DeRisi, Tomasz Nowakowski. Rubella virus tropism and single-cell responses in human primary tissue and microglia-containing organoids. eLife. 2023 Jul 20; 12.  View on PubMed
  2. Popova G, Retallack H, Kim CN, Wang A, Shin D, DeRisi JL, Nowakowski T. Rubella virus tropism and single-cell responses in human primary tissue and microglia-containing organoids. Elife. 2023 Jul 20; 12.  View on PubMed
  3. Keough KC, Whalen S, Inoue F, Przytycki PF, Fair T, Deng C, Steyert M, Ryu H, Lindblad-Toh K, Karlsson E, Zoonomia Consortium§, Nowakowski T, Ahituv N, Pollen A, Pollard KS. Three-dimensional genome rewiring in loci with human accelerated regions. Science. 2023 04 28; 380(6643):eabm1696.  View on PubMed
  4. Ethan A. Winkler, Chang Kim, Jayden Ross, Joseph Garcia, Eugene Gil, Irene Oh, Lindsay Chen, David Wu, Joshua Catapano, Kunal P. Raygor, Kazim Narsinh, Helen Kim, Shantel Weinsheimer, Daniel Cooke, Brian Patrick Walcott, Michael T. Lawton, Nalin Gupta, Berislav Zlokovic, Edward F. Chang, Adib Adnan Abla, Daniel A. Lim, Tomasz Nowakowski. 385 A Cell Resolution Atlas of the Human Cerebrovasculature Reveals Angiogenic and Inflammatory Cell Programs in Arteriovenous Malformations. Neurosurgery. 2023 Apr 1; 69(Supplement_1):69-69.  View on PubMed
  5. Schneider A, Azabou M, McDougall-Vigier L, Parks DF, Ensley S, Bhaskaran-Nair K, Nowakowski T, Dyer EL, Hengen KB. Transcriptomic cell type structures in vivo neuronal activity across multiple timescales. Cell Rep. 2023 Mar 29; 42(4):112318.  View on PubMed
  6. Deng C, Whalen S, Steyert M, Ziffra R, Przytycki PF, Inoue F, Pereira DA, Capauto D, Norton S, Vaccarino FM, Pollen A, Nowakowski TJ, Ahituv N, Pollard KS. Massively parallel characterization of psychiatric disorder-associated and cell-type-specific regulatory elements in the developing human cortex. bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 16.  View on PubMed
  7. Ethan A Winkler, Joseph Garcia, Cynthia Tsang, Jeffrey Nelson, Charles McCulloch, Shantel Weinsheimer, Christine K Fox, Heather Fullerton, Nerissa Ko, Hua Su, Tomasz Nowakowski, Daniel L Cooke, Steven Hetts, Ekin Guney, MELIKE PEKMEZCI, Tarik Tihan, Michael Lawton, Adib Abla, Nalin Gupta, Helen Kim. Abstract 52: Prevalence Of Somatic Activating Kras Mutations In Pediatric And Adult Sporadic Brain Arteriovenous Malformations. Stroke. 2023 Feb 1; 54(Suppl_1):a52-a52.  View on PubMed
  8. McKinley KL, van Boxtel R, Finley LWS, Peña CJ, Nowakowski TJ. New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigators. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 Dec 01; 29(12):1621-1623.  View on PubMed
  9. Steyert M, Nowakowski TJ. In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia. Development. 2022 Nov 15; 149(22).  View on PubMed
  10. Wang T, Kim CN, Bakken TE, Gillentine MA, Henning B, Mao Y, Gilissen C, SPARK Consortium, Nowakowski TJ, Eichler EE. Integrated gene analyses of de novo variants from 46,612 trios with autism and developmental disorders. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 11 15; 119(46):e2203491119.  View on PubMed
  11. Parks DF, Voitiuk K, Geng J, Elliott MAT, Keefe MG, Jung EA, Robbins A, Baudin PV, Ly VT, Hawthorne N, Yong D, Sanso SE, Rezaee N, Sevetson JL, Seiler ST, Currie R, Pollen AA, Hengen KB, Nowakowski TJ, Mostajo-Radji MA, Salama SR, Teodorescu M, Haussler D. IoT cloud laboratory: Internet of Things architecture for cellular biology. Internet Things (Amst). 2022 Nov; 20.  View on PubMed
  12. Nowakowski TJ, Salama SR. Cerebral Organoids as an Experimental Platform for Human Neurogenomics. Cells. 2022 09 08; 11(18).  View on PubMed
  13. Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Ross J, Parikshak N, Wang S, Zhou L, Koontz M, Velmeshev D, Siebert CV, Gemenes KM, Tabata T, Perez Y, Wang L, Mostajo-Radji MA, de Majo M, Donohue KC, Shin D, Salma J, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Ullian E, Kumar GR, Winkler EA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR. Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 07 26; 119(30):e2122236119.  View on PubMed
  14. Allen DE, Donohue KC, Cadwell CR, Shin D, Keefe MG, Sohal VS, Nowakowski TJ. Fate mapping of neural stem cell niches reveals distinct origins of human cortical astrocytes. Science. 2022 06 24; 376(6600):1441-1446.  View on PubMed
  15. Arlotta P, Chen F, Lodato S, Margrie TW, Nowakowski TJ, Pederson T, Rico B. Dissecting cellular diversity of cortical GABAergic cells across multiple modalities: A turning point in neuronal taxonomy. Fac Rev. 2022; 11:13.  View on PubMed
  16. Yu D, Li T, Delpech JC, Zhu B, Kishore P, Koshi T, Luo R, Pratt KJB, Popova G, Nowakowski TJ, Villeda SA, Piao X. Microglial GPR56 is the molecular target of maternal immune activation-induced parvalbumin-positive interneuron deficits. Sci Adv. 2022 05 06; 8(18):eabm2545.  View on PubMed
  17. Schmitz MT, Sandoval K, Chen CP, Mostajo-Radji MA, Seeley WW, Nowakowski TJ, Ye CJ, Paredes MF, Pollen AA. The development and evolution of inhibitory neurons in primate cerebrum. Nature. 2022 03; 603(7903):871-877.  View on PubMed
  18. Winkler EA, Kim CN, Ross JM, Garcia JH, Gil E, Oh I, Chen LQ, Wu D, Catapano JS, Raygor K, Narsinh K, Kim H, Weinsheimer S, Cooke DL, Walcott BP, Lawton MT, Gupta N, Zlokovic BV, Chang EF, Abla AA, Lim DA, Nowakowski TJ. A single-cell atlas of the normal and malformed human brain vasculature. Science. 2022 03 04; 375(6584):eabi7377.  View on PubMed
  19. Winkler E, Wu D, Gil E, McCoy D, Narsinh K, Sun Z, Mueller K, Ross J, Kim H, Weinsheimer S, Berger M, Nowakowski T, Lim D, Abla A, Cooke D. Endoluminal Biopsy for Molecular Profiling of Human Brain Vascular Malformations. Neurology. 2022 04 19; 98(16):e1637-e1647.  View on PubMed
  20. Wu Z, Chhun BB, Popova G, Guo SM, Kim CN, Yeh LH, Nowakowski T, Zou J, Mehta SB. DynaMorph: self-supervised learning of morphodynamic states of live cells. Mol Biol Cell. 2022 05 15; 33(6):ar59.  View on PubMed

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