Clinical Neurosciences PhD student in @Lab_Coleman at the University of Cambridge. Brains and Biotech enthusiast.

Cambridge, UK
Joined March 2020
Passed my PhD viva yesterday! 🤯 With support from the best mentors @Andrea_Loreto1 @M_P_Coleman @Lab_Coleman
🎉 Congratulations to the new Dr. Elisa Merlini @MerliniElisa, who absolutely crushed her PhD viva! So proud of you—what a massive achievement and so well deserved 🎓! As my first PhD student, I couldn’t have hoped for more. Excited to support you on your next steps! @CamNeuro
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Yesterday we celebrated Michael’s nomination to the Research Culture Celebration @Cambridge_Uni. Thanks for making our lab such an enjoyable place to work and learn, Michael!
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@Lab_Coleman reunion with @Andrea_Loreto1 and @ClaraMutschler at the Axon Degeneration Meeting. And great to catch up with so many others too and hear about huge advances on this topic since the last meeting.
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What a session at the Axon Degeneration Meeting. Former postdoc (now PI) ⁦@Andrea_Loreto1⁩, current postdoc ⁦⁦@MerliniElisa⁩ , collaborator ⁦@NeuroVino and valued colleague ⁦@ves_petrova⁩ all speaking/chairing on amazing work. Glowing inside as I listen!
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A wonderful PhD student who will continue to grow and grow as a wonderful researcher. Congratulations @MerliniElisa on a well-deserved PhD! And many thanks to @DajasBailador and @lyons_lab for your input and discussion as examiners.
🎉 Congratulations to the new Dr. Elisa Merlini @MerliniElisa, who absolutely crushed her PhD viva! So proud of you—what a massive achievement and so well deserved 🎓! As my first PhD student, I couldn’t have hoped for more. Excited to support you on your next steps! @CamNeuro
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Congratulations to Christina Antoniou who passed her viva today with a truly amazing thesis full of independent work done at such a difficult time. And thanks to examiners @LukasNeukomm1 and @Jellevda. Glad you had such an interesting discussion!
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The Axon Degeneration Meeting is back! Save the date!
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The 2023 @Lab_Coleman retreat. How we got here and where we’re going, workplace culture and values, the uses, limitations and threats of AI in research, advice from the PhD classes of 1986-2020 to the class of 2023, forest walk, food, gin, M Phil celebration and haunted caves.
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Had a wonderful time presenting my PhD research at the annual @PNSociety1 meeting in Copenhagen. As a first time attendee and Junior PNS member, I learned a lot about clinical perspectives of PNS research and how my findings fit into the landscape of toxic neuropathy. #PNS2023
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Sharing this experience with my fellow lab members made it all more special. Very grateful to the PNS society for selecting my talk and to my mentors and colleagues for helping me in preparation to this event @Lab_Coleman.
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Sarm1 in the PNS and CNS in 🐭🐟: It’s my first first author paper! frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Elisa Merlini retweeted
Next Tuesday - delighted to welcome @M_P_Coleman from @Lab_Coleman @BrainRepair_VGB to speak on 'Programmed axon death: from animal models into human disease' 📆31 Jan ⏰ 16:00 🖊️talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/1… 🌍Free & Open to all 📃🧵⬇️ 1/9
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As the first lab showing a neurotoxic effect of the NAD precursor NMN, we discuss links between NMN, other NAD precursors, SARM1 and anti-ageing supplements in our latest review on this controversial topic. @LabColeman #SARM1 #NMN #ageing sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Elisa Merlini retweeted
Interested in #regeneration & #spinalcordinjury? Want to collaborate with over 15 phenomenal #SCIresearch labs across the EU (incl @VerhaagenJoost)? Living in the EU and want to do a #PhD in London? ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! jobs.ac.uk/job/CVR811/marie-…
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Very excited to see this work published and really happy to have helped with this research. Congrats to @hcfeldmanphd and the rest of the team!
🚨New chemical tools for SARM1!🚨 Very excited to see our work published today in @PNASNews detailing the chemoproteomic discovery of stereoselective/site-specific allosteric #SARM1 inhibitors. Huge thanks to #LLJRC, @Andrea_Loreto1, and all co-authors! pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
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Only 1 day left before early bird tickets (20% discount!) are gone for our Femtech Venture Creation Programme – grab them now!
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Dr Andrea Loreto (University of Cambridge) will give the Cambridge Clin Neuro seminar at 12:00 UK time Thur 5th May: "Can we block axon degeneration in disease?" Dept see Teams/Slack/email. External DM us for link.
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CONFERENCE ALERT! Tickets at lnkd.in/eAvR2yQf In order to raise awareness on the #researchgap and plant the seed for future #innovation and ideas into university students in the UK, we have come up with the Mind the Research Gap project in partnership with @WHAMnow.
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Elisa Merlini retweeted
🤯 Are we currently ignoring the health of half of humanity? We LOVE that @CamUniFemtech is looking into this issue at their latest online event Get your tickets 👉 eventbrite.com/e/mind-the-re… #FemTech #WomensHealth
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