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Zayna Chaker is awarded an ERC Starting Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the winners of its Starting Grant 2024 awards, which provide funding for innovative and ambitious projects. At the IGFL, Zayna Chaker is one of the recipients of this prestigious ERC funding. Congratulations!
Its NSC-CoDEC* project aims to ‘decode the dynamics of brain regeneration’.
Neural stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain. They have the potential to generate new neurons. In mice, neural stem cells reside in two small, well-localised niches: one involved in the regulation of memory, stress and emotion, and the other producing neurons in the olfactory bulb. The NSC-CoDEC project is focusing on the common features of these two neurogenic regions. It therefore plans to look at whether sub-populations of stem cells in the two niches share similar molecular signatures and developmental trajectories. Next, the project will test the hypothesis of coordinated recruitment of specific stem cells in response to particular physiological conditions (pregnancy and maternity), or pathological conditions, thus coupling two distinct but often associated cognitive functions: olfaction and spatial and emotional memory.
* NSC-CoDEC : neural stem cell coordination: a developmental, evolutionary and circuit perspective
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