Brain Plasticity, Degeneration and Regeneration in Drosophila

Alicia Hidalgo

Alicia Hidalgo is a Professor of Neurogenetics at the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK. She did her PhD from the University of Oxford. Later, she went to the University of Cambridge for a postdoc as a Marie Curie Human Capital and Mobility Fellowship. She grew up in Madrid, Spain. Her lab at Birmingham aims to understand how the nervous system is formed and how it works. Her group investigates structural plasticity, degeneration, regeneration, and repair in the central nervous system (CNS). They use the fruit-fly Drosophila for its powerful genetics and in vivo neurobiology spanning from genes to cells, neural circuits, and behaviour. They discover gene networks, fundamental principles, and in vivo processes to understand the brain and with relevance for human brain health & disease.