{"id":727,"date":"2017-08-24T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quintanalab.org\/?p=727"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:55:21","slug":"the-wheels-are-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/mitochondrial-neuropatology\/2017\/08\/24\/the-wheels-are-running\/","title":{"rendered":"The wheels are running!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow! what a busy time this past year has been!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many (good) things and (good) news to explain! New members, new papers, exciting science… here you are a picture of the lab just before summer break!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First of all, we are glad to announce three! new additions<\/strong> to the lab: Kelsey<\/strong>, Fabien<\/strong> and Patrizia<\/strong>. (disclaimer: they have already been with us for some months, but hey, I told you we have been really busy!)<\/p>\n

Kelsey Montgomery\u00a0<\/strong>has re-joined the lab as a part-time research technician\/MSc student<\/strong> (Bioinformatics). She graduated (BSc. Genetics) from the University of Georgia (2013) and worked at Seattle Genetics (2013-2015) before joining the Quintana lab in Seattle (2015). We are excited to have her with us again on the other side of the pond!<\/p>\n

Fabien Menardy<\/strong> (aka Fab) has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow <\/strong>and is our resident optogenetics\/in vivo electrophysiology expert.\u00a0Fabien graduated (PhD Neurosciences) from the University of Paris Sud (2012) under the supervision of Dr. Catherine del Negro, where he worked on elucidating neural responses involved in zebra finch vocal communication signaling. After obtaining his PhD, he joined the lab of Dr. Daniela Popa and Dr. Cl\u00e9ment Lena, at the \u00c9cole Normal Sup\u00e9rieure, Institut de Biologie (Paris), as a postdoctoral researcher (2013-2016) where he focused on understanding the role of the cerebellum in Parkinson’s Disease. He is now interested in understanding the electrophysiological<\/strong> alterations<\/strong> (and their implications in circuit signal processing<\/strong>) in neurons with mitochondrial dysfunction.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrizia Bianchi<\/strong> joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow\u00a0<\/strong>and is an expert in mitochondrial dynamics. Patrizia graduated (PhD Biomedicine)\u00a0from the Universitat de Barcelona (2016) under the supervision of Dr. Aurora Pujol (IDIBELL), where she worked on elucidated the alterations in mitochondrial dynamics in X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. She is now focusing on characterizing the underlying deficits in mitochondrial dynamics<\/strong>\u00a0in animal models of Leigh Syndrome.<\/p>\n

We are glad to have such talented scientists in the lab!<\/p>\n

Last, but not least, and even though there will be other posts providing brief summaries, we are glad to have had two articles recently accepted! Hooray!<\/p>\n

Here you are the links, for those interested:<\/p>\n

Striatal GPR88 modulates foraging efficiency (Journal of Neuroscience)<\/a><\/p>\n

Loss of mitochondrial Ndufs4 in striatal medium spiny neurons mediates progressive motor impairment in a mouse model of Leigh Syndrome (Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience). OPEN ACCESS<\/a><\/p>\n

Will keep you updated!!<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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