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Andrea begins his Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship on 1st November 2018, collaborating with the Coleman, Wade-Martins and Bandmann groups in Cambridge, Oxford and Sheffield. The project studies axon degeneration in Parkinson's disease using a range of methods including primary cultures, iPSC-derived neurons and...

Jonathan Gilley, Paul Mayer, Gang Yu, Michael P Coleman; Low levels of NMNAT2 compromise axon development and survival, Human Molecular Genetics, ddy356, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddy356 NMNAT2 is an endogenous axon maintenance factor that preserves axon health by blocking Wallerian-like axon degeneration. Mice lacking...

Michael represented the UK in the World Gran Fondo Championship on 2 nd September in Varese, Italy. Funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK makes much of the research in his laboratory possible so this is the occasion to put something back in. He's successfully reached his fundraising target of £500 to help Alzheimer's...