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Dr Paula Alexandre
Lecturer (Research Group Leader)
Developmental Biology & Cancer Dept
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
- Joined UCL
- 1st Jun 2013
Research summary
My lab studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate neurogenesis during brain and spinal cord development. We currently use live-imaging and genetic approaches in zebrafish embryos to determine the molecular mechanisms that regulate self-renewal and neuronal differentiation and pattern. We are expanding these studies to human developing hindbrain.
Teaching summary
I'm co-leading the MsC module in "Molecular Biology of Normal development and Birth Defects" (CHLD0070), and the 3rd year BsC module in "Birth Defects: Basic Research to Clinical Application". (ANAT0024). I'm a lecturer in "Developmental Neuroscience" (ANAT0023) in the MsC Neuroscience at UCL.
I'm co-leading the MsC module in "Molecular Biology of Normal development and Birth Defects" (CHLD0070), and the 3rd year BsC module in "Birth Defects: Basic Research to Clinical Application". (ANAT0024). I'm a lecturer in "Developmental Neuroscience" (ANAT0023) in the MsC Neuroscience at UCL.
Education
- University College London
- Doctorate, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy | 2016
- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2005
- Universidade de Lisboa
- Other qualifications at first-degree level (including professional), Licenciatura | 2000
Biography
In 2000 I graduated in Biochemistry at Lisbon University and moved to Paris to start my PhD in Dr Wassef‘s laboratory at Paris VI. In 2006 I joined Professor Clarke’s laboratory at University College London (UCL) and later at King's College London as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow. In 2012 I was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship and later moved to UCL GOS Institute of Child Health as a lecturer to continue studying the mechanisms of neurogenesis at the origin of developmental brain defects.