Alexandra Almeida
Alexandra Almeida
PhD
Research Manager
Alexandra Almeida is Research Manager for the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (NEUROSEC) team based in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. She manages two core projects led by Prof. Ilina Singh: (i) Becoming Good (BeGOOD): Early Intervention and Moral Development in Child Psychiatry, funded by the Wellcome Trust; and (ii) NeuroGenE, the Global Initiative in Neuropsychiatric GenEthics, focused on the ethics of psychiatric genomics, in partnership with the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Harvard and MIT.
Alexandra is a core contributor to the development and execution of the Youth Dissemination Campaign for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development. The Youth Campaign is led out of Oxford, by a team that includes Prof. Ilina Singh, Dr. Gabriela Pavarini and Dr Alexandra Almeida.
Prior to her role as NEUROSEC Research Manager, Alexandra was a postdoctoral researcher in Neurodevelopment in Prof. William Harris' laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK. She holds a PhD in Developmental Biology from the University of Cambridge. Alexandra enjoys managing high level projects and teams, and has also worked extensively on developing outreach for scientific and medical programmes.
Recent publications
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Genetic control of cellular morphogenesis in Müller glia.
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Charlton-Perkins M. et al, (2019), Glia, 67, 1401 - 1411
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The ciliary marginal zone of the zebrafish retina: clonal and time-lapse analysis of a continuously growing tissue.
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Wan Y. et al, (2016), Development, 143, 1099 - 1107
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Inhibitory neuron migration and IPL formation in the developing zebrafish retina.
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Chow RW. et al, (2015), Development, 142, 2665 - 2677
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Spectrum of Fates: a new approach to the study of the developing zebrafish retina.
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Almeida AD. et al, (2014), Development, 141, 1971 - 1980
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Microcephaly models in the developing zebrafish retinal neuroepithelium point to an underlying defect in metaphase progression.
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Novorol C. et al, (2013), Open Biol, 3
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Cellular requirements for building a retinal neuropil.
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Randlett O. et al, (2013), Cell Rep, 3, 282 - 290
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How variable clones build an invariant retina.
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He J. et al, (2012), Neuron, 75, 786 - 798
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Origin and determination of inhibitory cell lineages in the vertebrate retina.
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Jusuf PR. et al, (2011), J Neurosci, 31, 2549 - 2562
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The F-box protein Cdc4/Fbxw7 is a novel regulator of neural crest development in Xenopus laevis.
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Almeida AD. et al, (2010), Neural Dev, 5
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Tsukushi modulates Xnr2, FGF and BMP signaling: regulation of Xenopus germ layer formation.
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Morris SA. et al, (2007), PLoS One, 2