Miguel Berbeira Santana

Miguel started his DPhil in our lab in October 2019, funded by a prestigious Pelly-Bannister scholarship, awarded by Oxford's Somerville College. He made outstanding progress in the study of different cell guidance receptors, with some of his work published in Cell in 2020 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31928845/) and in 2022 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36240740/). He successfully defended his DPhil viva end of 2023 and is now working as a postdoc in the lab to finish additional papers, funded by MIGRATE. Prior to the start of his DPhil, he completed a BSc in Basic and Experimental Biomedicine at the University of Seville (Seville, Spain). Miguel has undertaken previous research projects in diverse groups. During his undergraduate studies he spent two years investigating the biochemical processes underlying the neuroinflammation present in Alzheimer’s disease under the direction of Prof. Javier Vitorica. With the support of an Erasmus + grant, he spent the summer of 2018 studying adhesion GPCRs in the Seiradake lab at Oxford. He has also done a 2-month internship in the lab of Prof. Michael Heneka (Bonn, Germany) working on neurobiology projects.