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Teresa Niccoli

Associate Professor at the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL . She completed her PhD with Paul Nurse at Cancer Research UK, studying cell polarity and microtubule dynamics in the yeast S. pombe. She continued investigating cell polarity at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge with Daniel St. Johnston. She then took a 5-year career break to look after her two sons. In 2010 she resumed her scientific career by joining Linda Partridge's lab at UCL to work on Drosophila models of neurodegeneration and continued this work in Adrian Isaac's laboratory at the Dementia Research Institute UCL. Her laboratory currently uses fruit-fly models of dementia to understand how these disease develop, with the hope of helping the development of therapies aimed at increasing wellbeing of patients with disease.

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