Personal profile
Overview
Third-year Neuroscience PhD student investigating the role of environmental air pollution on neurovascular dysfunction and the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Through an in vitro cell model, analysing the neuroinflammatory response to diesel exhaust particles initiated by astrocytes at the blood-brain barrier may elucidate the contribution of air quality as a dementia risk factor.
Previous research has focused on the capacity for neuronal rewiring through gap junction modifications during critical developmental stages on the medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis).
Qualifications
Bsc Biology
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) | 2014 - 2018
Graduate Cum Laude
Memberships of committees and professional bodies
Manchester Mexican Society
Committee Member | 2021 - ...
Teaching
University of Manchester
Graduate Teaching Assistant | 2020 - 2022
Colegio de las Américas
Biochemistry Teacher | 2019
Other research
University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate Research Assistant | 2017 - 2019
Education/Academic qualification
Unknown, Bachelor of Science, Biology, Universidad Autonoma De Baja California
15 Aug 2014 → 15 Jun 2018
Award Date: 15 Jun 2018
Areas of expertise
- RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
- dementia
- Neuroinflammation
- environmental pollution
- Alzheimer's disease
- astroglia
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Dementia@Manchester