Thursday

28

March 2024

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM IST
Location

Room 101, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
Ahmedabad University

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Brain Plasticity, Degeneration and Regeneration in Drosophila

Biological and Life Sciences Division Seminar
Alicia Hidalgo | Speaker at Ahmedabad University

Alicia Hidalgo

Professor of Neurogenetics
Wellcome Trust Investigator
University of Birmingham
Speaker

We investigate structural plasticity and degeneration, regeneration and repair in the central nervous system (CNS). We use the fruit-fly Drosophila for its powerful genetics and in vivo neurobiology spanning from genes, to cells, neural circuits and behaviour. We discover gene networks, fundamental principles and in vivo processes to understand the brain and with relevance for human brain health & disease.

Speaker

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.