Katerina Douka
Education |
2016-present: PhD student supported by Leeds Anniversary Research Scholarship.
Supervised by Dr Julie Aspden, co-supervised by Prof. Jim Deuchars and Prof. Adrian Whitehouse. 2014-2016: MSc (distinction) in Molecular Medicine with option in Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens. MSc thesis at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute: Study of the role of Mirk/Dyrk1B kinase in the developing chicken spinal cord. 2008-2013: BSc in Biology, Faculty of Biology in the University of Athens |
Research interests |
Transcriptional and Translational regulation during Nervous system development and neurodegeneration, OMICS technologies, Drosophila Nervous system development, lncRNAs, lncRNA-protein interactions.
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PhD project |
Katerina's PhD focuses on the study of neuronal cytoplasmic lncRNAs using OMICS approaches.
She seeks to identify different cytoplasmic lncRNA populations in human neuronal cells -based on their interaction with the translation machinery- and assess their function and coding potential, during neuronal differentiation. She is also working on identifying the localisation of cytoplasmic lncRNAs in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster. |