Todd Farmer

Todd Farmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. His research focuses on neuroscience, particularly the role of astrocytes in cellular diversity within the brain.

Research interests:

• Neuroscience
• Bioinformatics & Data Science
• Astrocytes
• Cellular Diversity in the Brain

His postdoctoral work revealed that astrocytes in the adult brain exhibit phenotypic flexibility, with their molecular and physiological properties influenced by persistent neuronal signaling. This challenges previous assumptions about cellular diversity being solely developmentally determined.