Miss Elisa Merlini


University position

PhD student
Supervised by Michael Coleman

Departments

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Institutes

Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair

Home page

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elis... (personal home page)

Research Themes

Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

My research focuses on understanding how environmental toxins cause axon degeneration by triggering programmed axon death, a well characterised and preventable pathway associated with axonal injury and disease.

Research Focus

Keywords

Wallerian degeneration

neuropathy

toxic neuropathy

mitochondrial dysfunction

NAD

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

Cell culture

Enzyme assays

Fluorescence microscopy

Immunohistochemistry

Microscopy

Recombinant protein expression

Collaborators

No collaborators listed

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