Victoria Omstead

Victoria is a Research Associate II on the Human Cell Types team under Jonathan Ting. Her primary role at the Allen Institute is validating enhancer based AAV's across mouse and non-human primate animal models. Victoria received her Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Washington.

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publication / 2025

A suite of enhancer AAVs and transgenic mouse lines for genetic access to cortical cell types

Cell

publication / 2025

Enhancer AAV toolbox for accessing and perturbing striatal cell types and circuits

Neuron

publication / 2023

Morphoelectric and transcriptomic divergence of the layer 1 interneuron repertoire in human versus mouse neocortex

Science (New York, N.Y.)

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