Biochemical Journal Poster Prize winner

Anna Rubin

Anna Rubin is a third-year PhD student in the lab of Dr Nicoletta Kessaris at the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology. Her current work focuses on the origins and genetic specification of inhibitory interneurons in the developing mouse forebrain, and is funded by a Wellcome Trust studentship. Some of this work will be published later this year in the Journal of Neuroscience. Her other research interests span the fascinating crossover area between developmental biology and neuroscience. As part of her postgraduate programme, she has worked on short projects on the TC1 mouse model of Down's syndrome with Professor Elizabeth Fisher at the UCL Institute of Neurology, and calcium signalling in oligodendrocyte-lineage cells in Professor David Attwell's lab in the Dept. of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology. In 2006 she received her BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge in developmental biology, which included an undergraduate research project with Professor Andrea Brand at the Gurdon Institute looking at embryonic nervous system development in Drosophila.