Elena Blanco-Suárez, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience

Elena Blanco-Suarez, PhD

Contact

900 Walnut Street
JHN, 4th floor, Room 467
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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215-955-0440

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Elena Blanco-Suárez, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience

Research & Clinical Interests

The Blanco-Suárez lab is interested in the study of region-specific astrocyte contributions to neuroprotection and synaptic restoration. To do this we use mouse models of ischemic stroke to identify astrocyte proteins involved in synapse and spine remodeling and comparing brain regions with known differential vulnerability. We use a wide range of biochemical techniques, molecular biology and imaging in both in vivo and in vitro models of stroke. Our overall goal is to define the importance of region-specificity of astrocytic proteins in synaptic plasticity using ischemic stroke as a model, and harness the therapeutic potential of astrocytic proteins.

Education

Postdoctoral - Molecular Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 2020 
PhD - Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 2014 
BSc (Licenciaturae) - Biology, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 2009 
Master - Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2010

Publications

Awards

2021 - Finalist AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

2019 - Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship 

2018 - Next Generation Award (Junior Faculty Level), Society for Neuroscience

2017 - Catharina Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship 

2015 - Helmsley Center For Genomic Medicine (HCGM) Postdoctoral fellowship 

2014 - Paper of the Week. Awarded by Journal of Biological Chemistry 

2011 - European Synapse Summer School (EsCube) fellowship

2010 - Marie Curie Pre-doctoral fellowship, SyMBaD program