Kate Sellers
Postdoctoral Research Associate
In 2008 I joined the lab of Prof. Andrew Lumsden to carry out my PhD. During my PhD I studied diencephalic development looking specifically at the transcriptional control of the development of a population of interneurons within the thalamus. After completion of my PhD I joined the lab of Dr Deepak Srivastava, here I studied the mechanisms of estrogenic modulation of synapses and neural circuitry, and its therapeutic potential. During this project I became interested in understanding how extracellular molecules could rescue synaptic deficits in models of Alzheimer’s Disease. In October 2019 I joined the Jimenez Sanchez group as a research associate. The focus of my project is to investigate whether astrocytic molecular chaperones mediate non-cell autonomous astrocyte-neuron communication and whether these may confer protection to neurons in Alzheimer’s disease.
Timeline:
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Teaching Fellow, MSc Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health (distance learning MSc course), IOPPN, King’s College London. (2016- present)
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Research Associate, Neuronal circuitry % Neurodevelopmental disorders lab, IOPPN, King’s College London (2013-2019)
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PhD Developmental Neurobiology, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology (2008-2012)
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MSc Neuroscience, IOPPN, King’s College London (2007-2008)
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BSc Physiotherapy, Kings College London (2003-2007)