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London Area, United Kingdom

Post doc in Bart de Strooper / Lorena Arancibia lab UCL DRI at The Francis Crick

Using primary cultures and iPSC-derived neurons to study endolysosomal biology, axonal transport and BDNF/TrkB signalling in Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome. Under the supervision of Professor Giampietro Schiavo, Professor Elizabeth Fisher and Dr Nicol Birsa.

Investigating the role of PERK in the pathogenesis of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.Supervised by Professor Rohan de Silva.

Neurotrophic signalling in primary basal forebrain and hippocampal neurons expressing mutant tau (P301S)Under the supervision of Professor Giampietro Schiavo and Dr Oscar Lazo.

Unravelling the function of new Parkinson's disease risk genes in PINK1/Parkin mitophagy.Under the supervision of Professor Helene Plun-Favreau, Dr Claudia Manzoni, Dr Patrick Lewis and Dr Ben O’Callaghan.

Ucl Institute Of Neurology And Ucl Centre For Medical Image Computing

Worked across Neuroscience, Histology and Biomedical imaging to build next generation computational tools for high resolution neuroimaging studies. Collaborative work between the Centre for Medical Image Computing, UCL and the Queen Square Brain Bank, UCL.

Ucl Institute Of Neurology, Queen Square Brain Bank

Assisting neuropathologist Dr Zane Jaunmuktane with the processing of brain donations for research.Skills and responsibilities:- Assisted Consultant Neuropathologists with the processing of human brain donations at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology Brain Bank. - Undertook flash freezing and fixation of brain donations.- Embedded, sectioned, and stained brain tissue.- Used a microtome for fixed tissue and a cryostat for frozen tissue.- Immunohistochemistry.- Dealt with tissue requests from researchers.- Maintained and updated donation records.- Awareness of, and worked in line with, the Human Tissue Authority, Good Clinical Practise and Research Governance.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Cellular And Molecular Neuroscience

Investigating BDNF/TrkB signalling in neuronal models of Alzheimer’s Disease in Down syndrome (Professor Giampietro Schiavo & Professor.

Neuroscience Msc, Neuroscience, Distinction

Research looking at early imaging predictors of long term motor outcome in children with arterial ischemic stroke in the middle cerebral.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Psychology, First Class Honours

Research looking at whether threat moderates the efficacy of the distraction effect in pain attenuation.