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Andreas Heuer

Assistant Professor in Neuroscience

Scopus ID: 37121979900

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Andreas studied Psychology (BSc) at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. After obtaining a MSc in Neuropsychology at Maastricht University, Andreas conducted his doctoral research at Cardiff University in the Brain Repair Group under the tutelage of Steve Dunnett and Anne Rosser where he used simple and complex behavioural tasks to assess lesion-induced deficits and graft-induced behavioural recovery in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease. Andreas has conducted two post-doctoral periods at Lund University, with Malin Parmar (working on the preclinical assessment of dopaminergic human ES cell grafts) and Martin Lundblad (working on the detection of Dopamine release from transplants) from 2013-2016 , and Tomas Björklund (using chemogenetics to manipulate cell activity) from 2016-2018 focussing on the selective and reversible modulation of cell activity using chemogenetics.

Andreas was awarded a post-doc stipend by the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF) and subsequently an establishing grant by the Swedish Research Council (VR) to start his independent research group in June 2018 focusing on brain-behaviour relationships and disase modelling.

Matilde Negrini

PhD student

Scopus: 57201472074

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Matilde has studied Biotechnology at the University of Padua (Italy). Then she has completed her Master degree in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Trento (Italy) and the practical part as a research placement at Lund University (Sweden), in the Translational Neurogenetics Group. She has since completed the preparatory PhD course "Human Biology" financed by a grant form the Parkinsonsfonden. Matilde's project involves the generation and characterisation of a novel alpha-synuclein overexpression model of Parkinson's disaese.

In August 2018 Matilde started her doctoral studies on the assessment of non-motor deficits in a novel alpha-synuclein overexpression model. Her current projects involve the use of molecular biology, AAV vector production, complex behavioural testing, electrochemical recordings and opto/chemogenetics.

Francesco Gubinelli

Post doctoral researcher

Scopus ID: 57213690991

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Francesco got his Undergraduate degree in Applied Clinical Psychology and Medicine in University of Rome - La Sapienza working on PTSD. He completed a MSc in Molecular Biotechnology at Jagiellonian University, Kraków - Poland working on stem cells derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) for cardiac regeneration. In December 2019 he obtained his PhD in CEA-MIRCen (Paris) working within the EU Marie-Curie Grant in the development of an injectable hydrogel for cellular therapy in Parkinson's Disease.

Francesco joined BNL in February 2020 for his post doctoral research project. He will focus on the behavioural characterisation of our novel AAV-vector based preclinical rodent model of Parkinson's disease.

Giuseppe Tomasello

MSc student (Catania University, Italy)

Giuseppe is conducting his MSc research with us in the 2020/21 semester. His research project will focus on disease modelleing and the assessment of Viral Vectors for transgene expression.

Swantje Hauser

BSc Student (Vienna University, Austria)

Swantje is joining the BNL in January 2020. She will be working on the development of viral vectors for gene therapy. Her focus will be on investigation into the immune response after injection of AAV vectors into the midbrain as part of her BSc degree. Swantje is joined supervised by BNL and Marcus Davidsson at Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, USA.

Anita Mehrdadian

Project student (Lund University)

Anita will conduct a summer research project in our group with Francesco. Anita will study the effects of alpha-synuclein overexpression on non-motor symptoms in a choice reaction time task in rats.

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