Sofia Polcownuk
I am passionate about Biology; nature always amazed me. I started my career in a very different field with a more ecological background. I did my degree at the Universidad del Comahue in Bariloche, Argentina, where I was born. Soon I realized I wanted to learn more about behavior and physiology and how genes could affect us in that sense. I moved to Buenos Aires and started my Ph.D. at the Instituto Leloir, Universidad de Buenos Aires, in the Behavioural genetics’ laboratory led by Fernanda Ceriani. There I worked with circadian rhythms using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism. Currently, I am a research associate at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Autism Affects Gut Bacteria and Not the Other Way
Autism spectrum disorders comprise a diverse group of conditions involving developmental problems of the nervous system, which affect the interactions with the environment and...
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Can Boost Our Memory
We remember things, words, and experiences from the past with the help of our memory. Episodic memory, damaged in some dementias and neuropathologies, stores...
Little Cancer Exterminators: Natural Killer Cells From Our Bodies, a New Treatment for Fighting...
Cancer is a worldwide burden and is a leading cause of death, accounting for nearly 10 million during the last year. The name of...
Youthful Gut, Rejuvenated Brain: Intestinal Bacteria from Young Mice Reverse Aging
Aging is a natural process all living organisms undergo. As humans, we experience changes to our external features as well as internal functions and...
Delta variant more resistant to one dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines
Since the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 started in China in December 2019, genetic mutations of the virus gave rise to different variants that behave slightly...
New Insights Treating Rare Type of Alzheimer’s Disease
In a recent article published in Nature, Randall Bateman and colleagues report new insights into the effect of treatment in patients with inherited Alzheimer's.
Our Ancient Gut: What can we Learn from our Ancestors’ Diet and Lifestyle?
We are what we eat. Everything that we choose to eat affects our bodies and the bacteria community, our microbiota, that lives in our...
Mind the Gut: How Our Guest Bacteria Health Affects Our Brain
We are not alone, and we don't need to search further away on another planet. An entire community of microorganisms live inside our gut,...