Alumni
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This page is no longer being updated and is a historical record of Darren Logan’s work at the Sanger Institute.
At the Sanger Institute Darren Logan studied genes that enable animals to detect, interpret and respond to sensory signals with an appropriate behaviour. His interests encompass neuronal genomics and transcriptomics, innate and learned behavioural analyses, animal modelling and genome sequencing of humans with rare neurological disorders.
My timeline
Joined Monell Chemical Senses Center as an Assistant Member
Became an EMBO Young Investigator
Joined Sanger Institute as CDF Group Leader
Awarded the Verne Chapman Young Investigator Prize
Started postdoc at The Scripps Research Institute
PhD awarded, University of Edinburgh
Started 4yr PhD at MRC Human Genetics Unit
M.Biochem. awarded, University of Bath
My publications
Our study describing the transcriptomes of two olfactory organs showed chemosensory receptor genes (in green and purple) are restricted to different organs, while housekeeping genes (in orange) are expressed in both.
Part of the cover image from our paper published in Cell, illustrating how naive mice innately avoid a protein produced in cat saliva, after they detect it by smell.
A single olfactory sensory neuron captured on the Fluidigm C1 system at The Single Cell Genomics Centre. In a 2015 paper, we carried out single-cell RNA-seq to investigate the molecular diversity of these neurons.
Our 2014 paper, in collaboration with the Marioni group, used RNA sequencing to estimate the representation of hundreds of different neuron types in the zebrafish nose.
