An interview with Hyun-Kyoung Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital and Carlo Cristobal, a graduate student at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The Lee lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of neural development and neurodegenerative disease. Their studies focus on the identification of novel molecular signaling and regulatory pathways in glial cell development, to serve as a foundation upon which to develop therapeutic interventions for demyelinating diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.