Ingrid Lekk

I am a Wellcome Trust PhD student working jointly in the labs of Steve Wilson and Claudio Stern. I am interested in how left-right brain asymmetries are established during embryonic development and to what extent these asymmetries are conserved within different species.

Profile

2013 - present UCL Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Stem
Cell and Developmental Biology, labs of Steve Wilson and Claudio Stern.

2012 - 2013 UCL Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Stem
Cell and Developmental Biology, rotations in the labs of Antonella Riccio,
Steve Wilson and Claudio Stern.

2007 - 2012 BSc and MSc in Molecular Biology, Tallinn
University of Technology, Estonia. Research on regulation of BDNF translation
in rat hippocampal neurons, lab of Professor Tõnis Timmusk.

Conferences and meetings

• NGF meeting 2012 in Würzburg, Germany - Neurotrophic Factors and Plasticity of the Nervous System. Poster presentation - Translation of aternative bdnf transcripts in neurons

• Santander International Summer School 2013 in Santiago, Chile - Getting in Shape, Visualisation and Manipulation of Organismal Morphogenesis. Poster presentation - Development of left-right asymmetries in the diencephalon.

• SFBD/EFOR meeting 2014 in Paris, France - Cell Plasticity in Tissue Homeostasis and Laterality.