Associate Professor Cedric Bardy

Cedric is an internationally recognized leader in the field of human neural stem cells, and an expert in electrophysiology and single cell genetics. His research efforts are focused on developing in vitro models and new biotechnologies to unravel the effect of neurological disorders at the cellular and molecular level.

Dr Bardy invented BrainPhys neuronal medium in collaboration with Prof Fred H Gage to improve the physiology of neuronal culture (Bardy et al. PNAS 2015). The medium is distributed world-wide, and a rapidly growing number of laboratories is using it routinely.

Dr Bardy has also established a new analytical method on human neurons in vitro, dubbed PatchSeq, which combines the analysis of the electrophysiology, RNAseq and morphology of a single cell. Such multimodal profiling provides exceptional insights in the phenotypes of human iPSC-derived neurons (Bardy et al. Molecular Psychiatry 2016).

Resume:

2019 - current: Assistant Professor - Senior Research Fellow, Research Only Tenure - Flinders University, Australia (Bardy Lab)

2016 – current: Assistant Professor – Senior Research Fellow – SAHMRI Mind & Brain, Australia (Bardy Lab)

2011 – 2016: Postdoctoral Marie-Curie Fellow - Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, USA (Fred H Gage Lab)

2008 – 2010: Postdoctoral fellow - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (Pierre-Marie Lledo Lab)

2005 – 2008: PhD - University of Sydney, Australia (Bogdan Dreher Lab)