SEMINAR: Functional characteriation of de novo FOXP1 variants in intellectual disability with speech and language impairment

Elliot Sollis studied Genetics and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia and completed his Honours degree in 2010 with Prof. Nigel Laing and Dr. Gina Ravenscroft at the WAIMR. Presently, he is a PhD student with Prof. Simon Fisher and Dr. Pelagia Derizioti at the Max Planck Institute fro Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Elliot's work focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying speech/language-related disorders. As part of this research, he has investigated the functional effects of de novo variants in FOXP1, a gene associated with intellectual disability and speech impairment.