Federico HERRERA

CountryPortugal

Society affiliation Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências

ORCID ID 0000-0002-9596-9353

Position Principal Investigator/Group Leader

University/Organisation Universidade de Lisboa

Domain Neurodegenerative Disorders and Pathological Aging

Sub domains Astrocytes Molecular and cellular mechanisms Molecular and genetic techniques

Lab description

My laboratory strives to advance current knowledge on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Central Nervous System disorders, either developmental, neurodegenerative, traumatic or oncogenic. We collaborate with physicists, chemists, biochemists and computational biologists tackle two major lines of research from a multidisciplinary perspective:
1) The regulation of STAT3 behavior and function by protein-protein interactions and post-translational modifications; and
2) The development of new cellular models and molecular tools for the study of rare CNS disorders, such as Alexander disease, SPAX8, ARSACS, among others.

Lab URLhttps://herreralab.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/