NEWS

PhD students of the lab participated to the IDIBELL PhD day at University of Barcelona.

Congratulations to Valentina Baruffi, PhD student of the lab, for the award for the best oral communitation.

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David, Valentina and Veronica, PhD students from our lab, have participated in the European Researchers’ Night that was held in CosmoCaixa Museum in Barcelona.

We have participated in the second Research Meeting organized by the Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science from the UB. Veronica Testa, PhD of the lab, presented and update of our work modeling Parkinson’s Disease using iPS cell technology.

We warmly welcome Aurora Scrivo as a new Post-doc in the lab! She will be focused on the role of autophagy machinery in astrocytic and microglial cells, and how its impact in glia-neuron communication may affect Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis and neuronal death.

We participated in the Neurobell Spring Symposium entitled Stem Cells and Reprogramming Methods for Neuroscience that was held at the University of Barcelona. Veronica and Meritxell presented their results in patient-specific iPSC-derived astrocytes and organoids.

It has been a pleasure to host three high school students from Escola Virolai in the lab this week. They are highly motivated and now ready to continue their studies towards a scientific career.

Congratulations to Lucas Blasco Agell for completing his PhD, titled: “Microglial implication in Parkinson’s Disease: studying functional and morphological changes ocurring in LRRK2 microglia during PD pathophysiology using a stem cell derived human model”.

PhD students of the lab participated to the IDIBELL PhD day at University of Barcelona.

Congratulations to Lucas Blasco, PhD student of the lab, for the award for the best oral communitation.

You can access our most recent paper titled: Parkinson’s disease patient-specific neuronal networks carrying the LRRK2 G2019S mutation unveil early functional alterations that predate neurodegeneration that has been published in NPJ Parkinson’s Disease here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-021-00198-3

Congratulations to Irene Fernández Carasa for completing her PhD, titled: “Investigating the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease using patient-specific iPSC-derived astrocytes”.