How neuroepigenetics can help us to better understand spinal cord injury -Jess Chadwick

Welcome to Episode 1 of The Genomics Lab! On today's episode we
talk to Jess Chadwick who is a third year PhD researcher at
Imperial College London. She is doing her PhD in molecular
neuroscience, investigating the molecular mechanisms of axonal
regeneration after spinal cord injury. Jess talks to us about how
axonal injury in the spinal cord usually results in no
regeneration, but how in the peripheral nervous system, neurons
can re-grow and regenerate to a certain extent. Jess explains how
her research aims to study the regenerative mechanisms in
peripheral neurons, and identifying which molecular targets need
to be activated to achieve regenerative effects, which become
promising targets for boosting spinal cord regeneration. We also
discuss the role that epigenetics plays in this neurological
research. Jess predominantly works in the mouse nervous system,
and she discusses with us some of the limitations, ethical
considerations and benefits of a mouse model for this line of
research. Jess will welcome any questions or feedback so we have
provided her contact information below. Hope you all enjoy our
first episode! (See below for links)


Jess's twitter: https://twitter.com/Jess_Chadwick


Jess's email: j.chadwick17@imperial.ac.uk


Jess's academic Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/neuro.genomics.jess/