Contract Researcher

 

My PhD studies (at the University of Santiago de Compostela) were mainly focused on the field of "EvoDevo" (evolution and development); whose main objective has been to reveal the ancestral condition of the cerebellum, by studying the development of the cerebellum in the shark, belonging to the cartilaginous fish, the oldest living organisms that have a cerebellum. During the postdoctoral period, I have focused on functional studies, first working on the Wnt signalling pathway in early cnidarian development at the University of Miami. Subsequently, I worked on neuronal regeneration in the zebrafish cerebellum at the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). The main project in zebrafish has been the analysis of Purkinje cell regeneration, providing a tool for future studies on neurodegenerative diseases affecting the cerebellum, such as cerebellar ataxia. I am currently studying cerebellar regeneration in the anuran amphibian Xenopus laevis (at the Complutense University of Madrid), in order to analyse the mechanisms of regeneration in this animal model from an evolutionary point of view ("EvoRego", study of regeneration throughout evolution), and thus be able to understand the mechanisms of regeneration in the cerebellum.

solpose@ucm.es

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Dept. of Cell Biology

12th floor, office 30