PhD My Andersson
Biological and related sciences , HealthNeurophysiology (synaptic physiology)
Health
Molecular and cellular biology, Neurobiology, Genetic disorders
Development and disorders of the brain, particularly of the cerebellum
Neurodegeneration
Cerebellar ataxia
Autism
Winner GSK Discovery Track Challenge, 2017
Associate Professor, since 2016
Programme Director, Interdisciplinary Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford, since 2015
Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences at Wadham College, University of Oxford, since 2014
University Research Lecturer, University of Oxford, since 2014
Masao Ito Prize for best poster at the 6th International Congress of the Society for Research on the Cerebellum, 2014
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship, since 2010
Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellowship, 2006 – 2009
Albert J. Ryan Foundation Fellowship, 2003
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship, 2002
Unilever Research prize for MSc Thesis, 1999
Dutch, English, German
Fogel BL, Hanson SM, Becker EB (2015). Do mutations in the murine ataxia gene TRPC3 cause cerebellar ataxia in humans? Movement Dis 30(2), 284-6.
Becker EB, Stoodley CJ (2013). Autism spectrum disorder and the cerebellum. Int Rev Neurobiol 113, 1-34.
Becker EB, Oliver PL, Glitsch MD, Banks GT, Achilli F, Hardy A, Nolan PM, Fisher EM, Davies KE (2009). A point mutation in TRPC3 causes abnormal Purkinje cell development and cerebellar ataxia in moonwalker mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106(16), 6706-11.
Yuan Z*, Becker EB*, Merlo P, Yamada T, DiBacco S, Konishi Y, Schaefer EM, Bonni A (2008). Activation of FOXO1 by Cdk1 in cycling cells and postmitotic neurons. Science 319(5870), 1665-8. (*equal contribution)
Becker EB, Bonni A (2006). Pin1 mediates neural-specific activation of the mitochondrial apoptotic machinery. Neuron 49, 655-62.
Becker EB, Bonni A (2004). Cell cycle regulation of neuronal apoptosis in development and disease. Prog Neurobiol 72(1), 1-25.
Research Advisory Committee member, Action for Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T), since 2017
Executive Committee member, Society for Research on the Cerebellum and Ataxias, since 2016
Mother of two children, born 2007 and 2011.
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