Staff Profile

As part of the ChickenStress European Training Network (ETN), my project contributes to the knowledge of the functional consequences of stress in the chicken brain that could translate into best welfare conditions and improvement of the egg laying in chickens. My goal is to investigate the role of the hippocampus and the hippocampal neurogenesis in feedback regulation of the HPA axis.
http://www.chickenstress.eu/

I studied Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, beginning my scientific career in 2012 at the laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology in the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico performing research related to the behavioural effects of substances of abuse and sucrose addiction. Following an Erasmus Mundus award, I then studied at the University of Antwerp with cellular and molecular biology specialization at the University of Naples Federico II, receiving a MSc in Comparative Vertebrate Morphology in 2019 defending my thesis on the effects of intrauterine crowding on myelination in the piglet. Currently, I work towards my PhD at the Neuroscience Institute of the Newcastle University under the supervision of Dr Tom Smulders and Dr Tim Boswell.