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.