User:CassandraSoriano1/Sonia Villapol Salgado

Background History:

Sonia Villapol Salgado was born in Brittany, France on May 8th 1977. She is a Galacian neuroscientist that studied that the University of Santiago de Compostela. Sonia pursued her undergraduate degree in Biology in 2003, she specialized in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. Afterwards, Sonia moved to Barcelona to earn her masters degree in neuroscience. When she finished her masters, she began her doctoral studies in the departments of Cell Biology, Immunology, and Physiology.

Research:

Sonia Villapol Salgado worked on a thesis that focused on the mechanisms of cell death in the brain. Her doctoral thesis, "Apoptotic and Antiapoptotic mechanisms in neurons and glial cells after damage to the immature brain" earned a cum laude rating. From 2007 to 2010, at the Pierre er Marie Curie University Sonia was a postdoctoral researcher in France. Then in 2014, Sonia worked as an assistant professor in the Neuroscience Department at Georgetown University.

Sonia's research focuses on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, neurogenesis, or inflammation through models of brain injuries and the ways inflammatory mediators communicate with the periphery.

Sonia's Common Research Methods-


 * Protein analysis
 * Immunohistochemistry and microscopy analysis
 * Sequence analysis
 * DNA and RNA purification
 * Animal models of brain injury

Worklife:

Currently, Sonia Villapol Salgado works at the Texas Medical Center as a professor and principal investigator at the Center for Neuroregeneration at Methodist Hospital Research. In 2020, Sonia Villapol has been part of the Covid-19 International Research Team, which is a team of neuroscientists that focus on analyzing the ways coronavirus affects the brain and the nervous system.

Achievements:

On May 19, 2018 Sonia and her colleagues received the "Excellence in Biochemistry Internship award" from M.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program. Sonia has published over forty articles in peer reviewed journals and book chapters. As of this year, Sonia has been appointed as a full member to the National Institutes of Health's Molecular Neurogenetics Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review.