Shaline Fazal, PhD
Shaline is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. She has been involved in various projects focused around several aspects of Parkinson's disease.
Laura Castilla-Vallmanya, PhD
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University (Sweden). She obtained her PhD in Genetics from University of Barcelona (Spain) and has a strong background in studying human genetic variation and rare neurodevelopment disorders.
Amanda Schneeweis, PhD
Amanda is the program manager for Team Awatramani! Her background is in Alzheimer's disease research but is very excited to contribute to the PD field! Amanda is based in Chicago, IL.
Ruilin Zhang, PhD
Ruilin is currently a research fellow in the lab of Dr. Anna Krichevsky at Mass General Brigham. During her PhD training, Ruilin studied the activation and regulatory mechanisms underlying the innate immune dsRNA sensors, PKR and OAS-RNase L during vaccinia virus infection in the lab of Dr. John Karijolich at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Chuyu Chen, PhD
Chuyu is a postdoc fellow in the department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University. She studied the pathologic mechanism of LRRK2 by generating a disease model as a graduate student. After joining Parisiadou's lab, she is devoted to studying cell type specific LRRK2 dysfunction.
YuHong Fu, PhD
YuHong is a senior research fellow at the Brain and Mind Center of the University of Sydney, specializing in human neuropathology and the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. She brings advanced histopathology expertise and extensive experience analyzing postmortem human and rodent brain tissue. Her research focuses on selective neuronal vulnerability and glial pathogenic pathways in synucleinopathies.
