Welcome Sarah Thomas Broome
New postdoc at the division of Neurogeriatrics.
What will you be working on?
”I will be working as a postdoc in Sophia Schedin Weiss’s team on biomarker discovery and understanding the mechanisms of glycan biology in Alzheimer’s disease.”
What do you look forward to the most looking in your new position?
”I look forward to gaining experience in biomarker screens and using these to inform mechanistic studies to advance our understanding of the pathophysiology of AD”
Where have you been active before and what have you done earlier?
”I completed my PhD in Australia in cellular and molecular neuroscience under the supervision of Associate Professor Alessandro Castorina. My PhD involved investigating the potential to repurpose an anxiolytic for Parkinson’s disease using cell and animal models of PD. I then visited The University of California, Los Angeles, as a Fulbright Scholar to study sex differences in Multiple sclerosis with Dr Allan MacKenzie-Graham. I was recently working at the Paris Brain Institute as a FRM Postdoctoral Fellow to understand how mitochondrial metabolism controls glutamate neurotransmission and memory behaviours. ”
When you are not working, what do you do for recreation?
”I love being around water, whether that is swimming, rowing or relaxing by the water.”
Are you reading a book at the moment? Which one?
”I have just started reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki.”
What is the most beautiful place you have been to?
”It’s hard to pick one place, but being so far from home I’d have to say Australia!”
What makes you really happy?
”Being around friends/family.”