Christina Francisca Vogelaar
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Biography
Christina Francisca Vogelaar has her expertise in nerve regeneration. Her research focusses on the molecular mechanisms of peripheral and central axon regeneration and the treatment of traumatic and neuroinflammatory axon injury. She worked on sciatic nerve regeneration, on axonal RNA localization, and on spinal cord injury. In Mainz (Germany), her group works on ribosome transport and transfer in axons. She recently joined the lab of Frauke Zipp (Mainz, Germany) to investigate axon repair in neuroinflammation.