Ashleigh Willis

Ashleigh is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Miller Lab at the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia. Her work aims to understand how neural stem cells of the ventricular-subventricular zone can be activated and recruited for brain repair and remyelination, with a particular interest in the influence of the environment in this process. Ashleigh uses single cell RNA-sequencing and single-cell spatial transcriptomics (including 10X Xenium), combined with in vivo murine models, to address these questions. Her work is currently funded by an endMS fellowship from the MS Society of Canada.