New PhD scholarship funded

Our former MSc student Beatriz Ribeiro was awarded with a funded scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

She will be developing a PhD project on the neuronal function of IgLON5 and the pathological mechanisms triggered by anti-IgLON5 antibodies. Beatriz will be jointly supervised by Dr. Ana Luísa Carvalho and Dr. Luís Ribeiro, from the Synapse Biology group of Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), and Dr. Sandra Vieira (the PI of our Lab).

Congratulations Beatriz and good luck for your PhD research work!

Neuro Meetups Bern

Our PI, Sandra Vieira, and our PhD student Bárbara Sousa were invited to the October edition of Neuro Meetups Bern (5 October 2022).

Sandra gave a general overview of our lab's work on several strategies to establish novel therapies for neuroregeneration. Bárbara presented some of her work on cosurface capacitive electrical stimulation and its impact on neuritogenic signalling.

61st ISCoS Annual Scientific Meeting

Our PhD student Maria Ribeiro da Cunha attended the 61st ISCoS Annual Scientific Meeting, from 15-18 September 2022 in Vancouver, Canada.

In this Annual Meeting of the International Spinal Cord Society she presented her work on SCI rehabilitation, neurogenic bowel dysfunction and gut microbiome.

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Other two poster communications from our group were presented virtually by our PhD student Bárbara Sousa and our former MSc students Beatriz Ribeiro and Bruna Cruz.

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