Spinal cord regeneration across species Dr Aida Rodrigo Albors Group Leader and Chancellor's Fellow Institute for Regeneration and Repair Centre for Regenerative Medicine Contact details Email: Aida.Rodrigo-Albors@ed.ac.uk Aims and areas of interest My research focuses on spinal cord regeneration. As a Chancellor’s Fellow, I will bring together my expertise working with the highly regenerative axolotl and mouse models of spinal cord injury to uncover cellular and molecular mechanisms both supporting and limiting spinal cord regeneration. In the longer term, these insights can pave the way for new strategies to regenerate the injured spinal cord in humans. Group Members Aida Rodrigo Albors (Chancellor's Fellow and Group Leader) Lydia Lorenzo Cisneros (Martin Lee PhD student, co-supervised with Steve Pollard) Eunkyoon Lee (Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Honours student) Publications Peer-reviewed articles (2023) An ependymal cell census identifies heterogeneous and ongoing cell maturation in the adult mouse spinal cord that changes dynamically on injury. Dev Cell. Authors: Rodrigo Albors A, Singer GA, Llorens-Bobadilla E, Frisén J, May AP, Ponting CP, Storey KG. View publication (2021) Spatiotemporal control of cell cycle acceleration during axolotl spinal cord regeneration. eLife. Authors: Cura Costa E, Otsuki L, Rodrigo Albors A, Tanaka EM, Chara O. View publication (2019) Multiple steps characterise ventricular layer attrition to form the ependymal cell lining of the adult mouse spinal cord central canal. J Anat. Authors: Cañizares MA, Rodrigo Albors A, Singer G, Suttie N, Gorkic M, Felts P, Storey KG. View publication (2018) Lineage tracing of axial progenitors using Nkx1-2CreERT2 mice defines their trunk and tail contributions. Development. Authors: Rodrigo Albors A*, Halley PA*, Storey KG. View publication (2016) Accelerated cell divisions drive the outgrowth of the regenerating spinal cord in axolotls. eLife. Authors: Rost F*, Rodrigo Albors A*, Mazurov V, Brusch L, Deutsch A, Tanaka EM, Chara O. View publication (2015) Planar cell polarity-mediated induction of neural stem cell expansion during axolotl spinal cord regeneration. eLife. Authors: Rodrigo Albors A*, Tazaki A*, Rost F, Nowoshilow S, Chara O, Tanaka EM. View publication Commentary (2016) Mapping body-building potential. eLife. Authors: Rodrigo Albors A, Storey KG. View publication Book chapters (2015) High-efficiency electroporation of the spinal cord in larval axolotl. Methods Mol Biol. 1290, 115-125. Authors: Rodrigo Albors A, Tanaka EM. View publication * Co-first author Co-corresponding author Funding The University of Edinburgh Royal Society Medical Research Scotland This article was published on 2024-02-26
