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Ilary Allodi
Ilary Allodi
Principal Investigator (she/her)
Made in Italy, Scandinavian adopted, food&wine devotee, Pilates addicted, colors&patterns aesthete, interface hater, cat-lover-but-dog-aficionado, sun chaser, art cognoscente, writer dilettante, science&tech adept, GO&Chess player, wonderlands finder.
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Santiago Mora
Santiago Mora
Postdoc (he/him)
North adoptee missing the Mediterranean. I obtained my PhD in Neuroscience in 2018 and joined NCDL in fall 2021. Since then, I have worked on the role of inhibitory interneurons in ALS and a potential gene therapy for the disease. Committed to the right balance between experimental needs and the best ethical approach towards research animals, I specially enjoy behavioral assessment and surgery. Out of the lab, I play drums, lift heavy things and watch horror movies.
Beck Strohmer
Beck Strohmer
Postdoc (they/them)
Originally from the US, I moved to Denmark in 2008 working in supply chain management. In 2014, I went back to university and obtained my MSc in Engineering before completing a PhD in Neuromorphic Engineering. During my postdoc work, I have moved into the field of computational neuroscience, using my background building neural networks to study the breakdown in locomotion during neurodegenerative disease. Outside of work, I am part of the voguing scene in Denmark as well as an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
University of Copenhagen profile
Anna Villaume Stuckert
Anna Villaume Stuckert
PhD student (she/her)
I have a BSc in Cognitive Science with a thesis on interoceptive inference and decision-making from Aarhus University. I did my MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen, with my thesis conducted in the NCDL group investigating the rescue of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) motor phenotype by Esyt1 systemic overexpression upon AAV-PHP.eB virus intravenous delivery. I am currently pursuing a PhD at the University of St Andrews, where I’m investigating mouse emotional facial expressions in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) as a window to neural circuit deficits occurring early in disease. I’m doing this utilising a VR environment and new machine learning methodology to improve behavioural assessment in disease and healthy conditions, with fibre photometry and optogenetics for in-vivo neural circuit assessment. I have a keen interest in the FTD-ALS continuum, especially emotionality in FTD, as well as decision neuroscience and especially decision impairments in disease. I am also passionate about crafting, including knitting, sewing, embroidery, as well as painting.
Dana Blenda Ahlmark
Dana Blenda Ahlmark
Michael Haverstock
Michael Haverstock
Previous trainees
Rasmus von Huth Friis
Jan Kaminski
Juan Pineda
Lennart Groh
Roser Montañana-Rosell
Anastasia Seccombe
Kendra Melville
Haoyu (Harvey) Wang
Collaborators
Prof. Ole Kiehn
Dr. Raghavendra Selvan
Prof. Joost Verhaagen
Prof. Marco Beato
Dr. Andreas Toft Sørensen
Dr. Susana Aznar
Dr. Kirsten Svenstrup