MeyerLab
Juliana Alicja Zink Pedersen
Ph.D. student
Scientific focus areas:
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In vitro disease modelling using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC)
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Differentiation of hiPSCs to dopaminergic neurons and mature astrocytes
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Neuron-astrocyte co-culture
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Intercellular organelle and α-synuclein transfer, including mitochondrial transfer Bioimaging (live cell bioimaging and ICC)​
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Current project:
Neuron-astrocyte interactions in Parkinson’s disease: mechanisms of intercellular organelle and α-synuclein transfer
Experience:
01/2025 – present: Neuroscience Academy Denmark PhD fellow in Prof. Morten Meyer group, Department of Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark
01/2024 – 12/2024: Neuroscience Academy Denmark, Research Assistant on lab rotations in Prof. Daniel Wüstner’s group (University of Southern Denmark), Prof. Jørgen Erik Nielsen’s group (Rigshospitalet, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Copenhagen), Assoc. Prof. Mikael Palner’s group (University of Southern Denmark), Prof. Morten Meyer’s group (University of Southern Denmark)
03/2023 – 08/2023: Research Assistant, Prof. Poul Henning Jensen group, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University
Education:
01/2023: Master of Science in Biomedicine, Department of Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark. Title: “Role of astrocyte-neuron interaction in PARK2-mediated Parkinson’s Disease”