Emma Dumble

Research Assistant

  • Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Chancellor's Building
Edinburgh Bioquarter
49 Little France Crescent

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4SB

Biography

Qualifications

Two-year Master's in Developmental Biology- Sorbonne Université (France), 2021.

BSc(Hons) in Biomedical Science - Cardiff University, 2015.

Research summary

Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) form around 5% of the central nervous system and have long been known to give rise to myelinating oligodendrocytes. However, there are far more OPCs than ever differentiate into myelinating oligodendrocytes.

I am working to investigate the non-myelinating roles of OPCs, including how they might be sculpting the visual system in zebrafish. I am currently developing new protocols for CRISPR/Cas9 mediated knock-ins in zebrafish allowing visualisation of endogenous protein expression. 

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