Dr Eleni Christoforidou, PhD, AFHEA

Dr Eleni Christoforidou, PhD, AFHEA

Neuroscience PhD | Science Communicator | STEM educator | Skilled in molecular, cellular, and biochemical techniques, RNA sequencing, bioinformatics, microscopy, and image analysis.

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Professional Activities

Invited Seminars

  • University of Caen Normandy, France, 15 Jun 2023

Conferences Attended

AS PRESENTER

  • European Network to Cure ALS

    • Date: 1-3 Jun 2022
    • Location: Edinburgh
    • Participation type: Poster presentation

  • Undergraduate Honours Project Conference Day

    • Date: 13 Dec 2017
    • Location: University of Glasgow
    • Participation type: Oral presentation

  • MSci Conference Day

    • Date: 11 Oct 2017
    • Location: University of Glasgow
    • Participation type: Oral presentation

  • The 10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

    • Date: 30 Mar 2017
    • Location: University of Glasgow
    • Participation type: Oral presentation

  • Let's Talk about [X]: An Undergraduate Research Conference

    • Date: 15 Feb 2017
    • Location: University of Glasgow
    • Participation type: Oral presentation

AS DELEGATE

  • Festival of Genomics and Biodata

    • Date: 25-26 Jan 2023
    • Location: London

  • Festival of Genomics and Biodata

    • Date: 25-28 Jan 2022
    • Location: Online

  • Vesicle trafficking & Pathways to Neurodegeneration Conference

    • Date: 17 May 2021
    • Location: Online

  • European Network to Cure ALS

    • Date: 12-14 May 2021
    • Location: Online

  • Neuro-Careers Conference

    • Date: 25 Feb 2017
    • Location: Glasgow

  • 5th EUNS Neuroscience to Neurology National Undergraduate Conference

    • Date: 18 Feb 2017
    • Location: University of Edinburgh

  • MSci Conference Day

    • Date: 2 Nov 2016
    • Location: University of Glasgow

  • 6th Student Medical Conference: The Psychosomatic Health of Adolescents

    • Date: 23 Feb 2013
    • Location: Limassol, Cyprus

Symposia Attended

AS PRESENTER

  • School of Life Sciences Research Symposium

    • Date: 17 Jan 2023
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Poster presentation

  • Life Sciences PhD Careers Symposium

    • Date: 1 Jul 2022
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Oral presentation

  • Life Sciences PhD Careers Symposium

    • Date: 30 Jun 2021
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Poster presentation

  • Sussex Neuroscience PhD Symposium

    • Date: 11 Jul 2019
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Oral presentation

AS DELEGATE

  • Sussex Neuroscience Day

    • Date: 19 May 2022
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • Life Sciences Research Symposium

    • Date: 23 Mar 2022
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND

    • Date: 7-10 Dec 2021
    • Location: Online

  • Sussex Neuroscience Day

    • Date: 23 Jun 2021
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • Life Sciences Research Symposium

    • Date: 7 Jan 2021
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • 31st International Symposium on ALS/MND

    • Date: 9-11 Dec 2020
    • Location: Online

  • Cytokinetics Symposium

    • Date: 8 Dec 2020
    • Location: Online

  • Sussex RNA Network Mini Symposium

    • Date: 1 Dec 2020
    • Location: Brighton and Sussex Medical School

  • Sussex Neuroscience PhD Symposium

    • Date: 15 Sep 2020
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • Life Sciences Research Symposium

    • Date: 10 Dec 2019
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • Dementia Research Group Mini Symposium

    • Date: 8 Nov 2019
    • Location: Alzheimer's Society Doctoral Training Centre and University of Sussex

  • Life Sciences PhD Symposium

    • Date: 12 Sep 2019
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • Sussex Neuroscience Day

    • Date: 21 May 2019
    • Location: University of Sussex

  • Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology Research Day

    • Date: 15 Nov 2016
    • Location: University of Glasgow

Workshops & Networking Events Attended

  • Francis Crick Institute Start-up Career Fair

    • Date: 28 Nov 2022
    • Location: London
    • Participation type: Attendee

  • Sussex Neuroscience Postgraduate Poster Session

    • Date: 28 Sep 2022
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Poster presentation

  • RNA Workshop

    • Date: 11 Sep 2019
    • Location: Brighton and Sussex Medical School
    • Participation type: Attendee

  • Sussex Neuroscience Postgraduate Poster Session

    • Date: 2 Sep 2019
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Attendee

  • 3D prining for Neuroscience Workshop

    • Date: 7 Nov 2018
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Participant

  • Neuroscience Postgraduate Poster Session

    • Date: 25 Sep 2018
    • Location: University of Sussex
    • Participation type: Attendee

Research Skills Training Webinars Attended

  • Absolute quantification of miRNAs and CNVs with high accuracy and precision using digital PCR

    • Date: 21 Jul 2022
    • Offered by: Qiagen

  • ncRNA-seq Results Explained: what you can explore with non-coding RNA data

    • Date: 21 Jul 2022
    • Offered by: Novogene

  • RNA-seq Results Explained: what you can expect from the analysis

    • Date: 17 Feb 2022
    • Offered by: Novogene

  • Design and analysis of quantitative PCR experiments for laboratory scientists and statisticians

    • Date: 3 Sep 2021
    • Offered by: NIHR Statistics Group

  • Part 2: An Overview of Super Resolution Microscopy

    • Date: 10 Mar 2021
    • Offered by: Andor Technology

  • Part 1: An Overview of Super Resolution Microscopy

    • Date: 24 Feb 2021
    • Offered by: Andor Technology

  • Sample Preparation for Immunohistochemistry

    • Date: 20 Jan 2021
    • Offered by: Andor Technology

Research Seminars Attended

  • Spatial omics in deciphering biology and identifying novel drug targets

    • Date: 1 Dec 2022
    • Offered by: Front Line Genomics

  • Leveraging a new era of protein structure prediction to advance proteomic-driven drug discovery

    • Date: 29 Nov 2022
    • Offered by: Front Line Genomics

  • Microglial states and Nomenclature

    • Date: 7 Nov 2022
    • Presenter: Amanda Sierra from Ikerbasque and the Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience

  • Microglia at the interface of chronic neurodegeneration and systemic inflammation

    • Date: 1 Mar 2021
    • Presenter: Colm Cunningham from Trinity College, Dublin

  • Membraneless organelles regulate intrinsically disordered proteins in neurophysiology and neuropathology

    • Date: 22 Feb 2021
    • Presenter: Lenzie Ford, Columbia University

  • Microglia shape neuro-vascular responses via compartment-specific mechanisms

    • Date: 1 Feb 2021
    • Presenter: Adam Denes, Hungary

  • Astroglia-microglia cross talk as part of the cellular response in Alzheimer's Disease

    • Date: 7 Dec 2020
    • Presenter: Bart De Strooper from University College London

  • Neuronal encoding of drug choices and preference in the orbitofrontal cortex

    • Date: 7 Dec 2020
    • Presenter: Karine Guillem from University of Bordeaux

  • Modelling neuroinflammation using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia

    • Date: 2 Nov 2020
    • Presenter: Sally Cowley from the University of Oxford

  • Graphene-based Nanomedicine: from Science Fiction to Real-World Solutions

    • Date: 16 Oct 2020
    • Presenter: Dr Tabish Tanveer from University College London

Committee Meetings Attended as a Student Representative

  • 30 Apr 2020, Research Degree Committee Meeting, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex

  • 22 Apr 2020, School of Life Sciences Postgraduate Student Experience Group, University of Sussex

  • 19 Feb 2020, School of Life Sciences Student Experience Group Meeting, University of Sussex

  • 3 Feb 2020, Neuroscience Board of Study Meeting, University of Sussex

  • 30 Jan 2020, School of Life Sciences Research Degree Committee Meeting, University of Sussex

  • 13 Dec 2019, Life Sciences Periodic Review Meeting, University of Sussex

  • 30 Oct 2019, School of Life Sciences Student Experience Group Meeting, University of Sussex

Professional Organisation Memberships

  • 2015 – 2020, British Neuroscience Association.

  • 2015 – 2020, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.

  • 2015 – 2020, International Brain Research Organisation.

Courses completed

The Brain and Space

  • Offered by: Duke University
  • Completed in: Nov 2015
  • Description: This course concerns our spatial abilities, and covers vision, hearing, body position sensing, movement, and balance. It closes with topics involving representations, reference frames, navigation, memory, and cognition.

Introduction to Neuroeconomics: how the brain makes decisions

  • Offered by: National Research University, Higher School of Economics
  • Completed in: Sep 2014
  • Description: Neuroeconomics is a unified discipline, combining economics, psychology, and neuroscience. It provides economists and social scientists with a deeper understanding of how they make their own decisions, and how others decide.

Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data

  • Offered by: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Completed in: Sep 2014
  • Description: This course explores the intersection of statistics and functional magnetic resonance imaging, covering analysis of fMRI data, acquisition, and use in locating brain activity and making inferences about connectivity and predictions about psychological or disease states.

Genes and the Human Condition (From Behavior to Biotechnology)

  • Offered by: University of Maryland
  • Completed in: Aug 2014
  • Description: This course provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts of genomics and biotechnology, and their implications for human biology, evolution, medicine, social policy and individual life path choices in the 21st century.

The Addicted Brain

  • Offered by: Emory University
  • Completed in: Aug 2014
  • Description: The course covers many aspects of addiction, mainly to drugs, but also to the Internet, gambling and other behaviours.

Bioinformatics: Life Sciences on Your Computer

  • Offered by: Johns Hopkins University, Centre for Biotechnology Education
  • Completed in: Jul 2014
  • Description: This introductory five-week course on bioinformatics covered sequence databases, PubMed, BLAST searching, protein bioinformatics, secondary structure prediction, bacterial gene prediction, viral gene structure, eukaryotic gene prediction and DNA fingerprinting.