Catherine Abbott, Lady Bird is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Edinburgh.
12 Facts About Catherine Abbott
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Catherine Abbott earned a PhD in biochemical genetics from the University of Reading and the Medical Research Council from Harwell in 1987.
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Catherine Abbott moved to Edinburgh to work in the human genetics unit of the Medical Research Council and then as a tenured academic at the university.
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Catherine Abbott is a geneticist who studies a strain of mice that develop an early onset of motor neuron disease.
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Catherine Abbott is interested in what makes motor neurones particularly vulnerable to stress in comparison to other cells in the body, with a focus on making them more robust.
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Catherine Abbott is developing new models of motor neuron disease to identify new targets for treatments.
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The eEF1A2 gene is mutated in some people with autism and epilepsy, and Catherine Abbott's lab are modelling the changes to find out why.
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Catherine Abbott keeps a lab blog, where they document the important gene mutations they have discovered so far.
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Catherine Abbott is a campaigns for diversity within the sciences, and has led the Athena SWAN applications at the University of Edinburgh.
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Catherine Abbott is a member of the British Neuroscience Association.
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Catherine Abbott is on the panel for the funding panel for the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research.
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Catherine Abbott is the Associate Editor for ACS journal Chemical Neuroscience.