PhD Students

Ketevan Alania

Project Title: Non-invasive Deep Brain Stimulation to Modulate Brain Activity and Related Function

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Bshaier Allehyany

Project Title: Age, Sex, and Synaptic Proteomic Signatures in Super-Agers

Supervisors: Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr Yu Ye

Aydan Askarova

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

Project Title: Discovering Risk Genes and Pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease: Integrative Enhancer-to-Gene Interactome Mapping of the Cerebral Vasculature

Ida Bomann

Project Title: Investigation of Stress-Induced Senescence Associated with Ageing and Neurodegeneration

Supervisors: Dr Raffaella Nativio, Professor Jesus Gil

Sam Boulger

Project Title: What Makes a Neuron Vulnerable to Early Alzheimer’s Disease?

Supervisors: Professor Paul Matthews, Dr Eugene Duff, Dr Javier Alegre Abarrategui

Matilda Burridge

Project Title: Investigating the Role of Inducible Proteasome Subunits in Neuronal Models of Tauopathies

Supervisors: Dr Yu Ye, Dr Johanna Jackson, Professor Amin Hajitou

Jia Qi Chong

Project Title: Deciphering Epigenetic Regulation of Astrocyte Functional States in Healthy Ageing and in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Raffaella Nativio, Professor Simone Di Giovanni

Marco Ferrari

Project Title: Investigating the Interplay between Circadian Clocks and mTOR Signalling in Microglia and Its Disruption in Neurodegeneration

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

Tatiana Georgiades

Project Title: Multi-‘omic Characterisation of Vulnerable Synaptic Components in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr Samuel Barnes

Isidora Gocmanac

Project Title: Epigenomic Profiling in Disease Relevant Cell Types

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

Anjali Golding

Project Title: Elucidating Genetic Regulatory Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease and Drug Repurposing

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews, Dr Eugene Duff

Sabino Mendez Pastor

Project title: How Do TREM2 Gene Variants Enhance Susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease?

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews

Natalie Ness

Project Title: Investigation of the Role of Astrocytes in Encoding Circadian Function

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

Jean Rintoul

Project Title: Non-invasive focused stimulation of neural activity

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Eléonore Schneegans

Project Title: Multi-Omics Analyses for Human Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Supervisor: Dr. Nurun Fancy, Dr Johanna Jackson, Professor Paul Matthews

Janis Transfeld

Project Title: The Role of Genetic Risk Variants in Regulatory Elements in Parkinson’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott, Professor Steve Gentleman, Dr Sarah Marzi

Janna van Dalen

Project Title: Investigating the Epigenomic Changes in Vascular and Immune Cells of the Ageing Human Brain

Supervisors: Dr Alexi Nott, Dr David Owen

Xingjian Wang

Project Title: Proteomic Signatures of Synaptic Vulnerability and Resilience in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Samuel Barnes

Kevin Ziegler

Project Title: Exploration of Enhancer Landscapes in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Patients with the Aim to Reveal Signalling Pathways Associated with the Disease Pathogenesis

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

Patrycja Dzialecka

Project Title: Mechanistic Investigation of Temporal Interference Brain Stimulation and Its Translational Application

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Junheng Li

Project title: Investigation of the Falling Asleep Brain Dynamics and Its Closed-Loop Augmentation Strategy

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Alan Murphy

Project Title: Prediction of Cell-Type Specific Effects of Genetic Variants in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

Kitty Murphy

Project Title: Cell Type-Specific Evolutionary and Epigenetic Signatures: Leveraging Human and Non-human Primate Data to Gain Insight into Brain Disorder Risk in Humans

Supervisors: Dr Nathan Skene, Professor Steve Gentleman, Dr Sarah Marzi

Brian Schilder

Project Title: Predicting the Epigenomic and Clinical Phenotypic Effects of Genomic Mutations through Deep Learning

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

Liina Sirvio

Project Title: Alpha-Synuclein Aggregates Are Targeted for Degradation by Phase-Separated Proteasome Droplets

Supervisors: Dr Yu Ye, Professor Steve Gentleman

Maria Tsalenchuk

Project Title: Elucidation of Epigenetic Mechanisms Involved in Parkinson’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Sarah Marzi, Professor Paul Matthews

Matteo Vinao-Carl

Project Title: Closed-Loop, Personalised Brain Stimulation Intervention for Impairment of Cognitive Control

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Xiaoqi Zhu

Project Title: Electrophysiological Investigation of Temporal Interference Brain Stimulation

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Principal funder:

Medical Research Council