Inma Cobos is a neuropathologist and neuroscientist with expertise in developmental neurobiology and neurodegeneration. 

Inma received her medical and doctoral degrees from the University of Murcia in Spain and completed post-doctoral training in Developmental Neurobiology at the University of California, San Francisco. She then pursued a clinical residency and fellowship in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Before joining Stanford in 2019, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Neuropathology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

Her research program combines her background in diagnostic neuropathology, knowledge of developmental neuroscience, and state-of-the-art cellular and molecular technologies to advance the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Her work is supported by the NIH National Institute of Aging, the Alzheimer’s Association, BrightFocus, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Neurodegeneration Challenge Network.

Jie got his MD degree in hematology, where he researched the resistance of chronic myelogenous leukemia patients to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. His graduate research focused on transcriptional gene regulation in microglia and astrocytes in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. In the Cobos Lab, Jie’s postdoctoral research investigates how astrocyte-neuron interactions at the synapse contribute to the pathogenic elimination of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the early stages of AD in a cell-type dependent manner. Outside the lab, Jie enjoys playing badminton and hiking with his friends.

Jaume holds a bachelor's degree in Biology, a master's degree in Bioinformatics, and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology and Biomedicine. His current postdoctoral work focuses on the application of computational methods to the study of neurodegenerative disorders. Jaume loves nature, movies, books, music, and traveling. If you can't find him in the lab, just check underwater. He will probably be there trying to find an octopus.

Akila earned her Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), where she worked on bulk-RNA sequencing analysis of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's disease and built tissue-specific networks to study interactions between differentially expressed genes. She developed a machine learning method to prioritize non-coding variants. Akila’s postdoctoral work explores the lab’s large Alzheimer’s disease dataset and investigates changes in neuronal and non-neuronal cell types at early and late stages of pathology. Outside the lab, Akila enjoys watching movies and listening to different varieties of music.

Janie graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and joined the Cobos Lab in 2021. Her current research uses single-cell and spatial –omics to trace changes in gene and protein expression accompanying Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Janie also helps with daily logistics in the lab, including ordering, training new members, and managing the lab’s mouse colony. Outside the lab, she enjoys swimming, writing, and exploring new foods and places. In the near future, Janie hopes to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience.

Kristen graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2022 with a Bachelor’s in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. She is currently working in the Cobos Lab as an LSRP, where she investigates transcriptomic and proteomic changes in Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia. Kristen also supports the Stanford ADRC Neuropathology Core as Neuropathology Coordinator. Outside the lab, she enjoys baking, playing bass clarinet, and going on adventures with her dog. Kristen and Janie are co-founders of the Cobos Lab Book Club. 

Rellie is an undergraduate junior majoring in Biology and English Literature. She was born in Dalian, China and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She is interested in exploring the occurrence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. Outside the classroom and the lab, she loves to swim, read, and paint.