Aida Rodrigo Albors Research Group

Spinal cord regeneration across species

Dr Aida Rodrigo Albors

Group Leader and Chancellor's Fellow

  • Institute for Regeneration and Repair
  • Centre for Regenerative Medicine

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Aims and areas of interest

My research focuses on spinal cord regeneration. As a Chancellor’s Fellow, I will bring together my expertise working with the highly regenerative axolotl and mouse models of spinal cord injury to uncover cellular and molecular mechanisms both supporting and limiting spinal cord regeneration. In the longer term, these insights can pave the way for new strategies to regenerate the injured spinal cord in humans.

Rodrigo Albors lab group holding axolotl plushie

Group Members

Aida Rodrigo Albors, Chancellor's and Wellcome Career Development Fellow

Lydia Lorenzo Cisneros, Martin Lee PhD student (co-supervised with Steve Pollard)

Laura Isabella Arbanas, Eastbio PhD student

Rodger Hu, BMedSci Hons Student (Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells)

Publications

Rodrigo Albors A, Singer GA, Llorens-Bobadilla E, Frisén J, May AP, Ponting CP, Storey KG*. (2023) An ependymal cell census identifies heterogeneous and ongoing cell maturation in the adult mouse spinal cord that changes dynamically on injury. Dev Cell. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.01.003

Cura Costa E, Otsuki L, Rodrigo Albors A, Tanaka EM, Chara O. (2021). Spatiotemporal control of cell cycle acceleration during axolotl spinal cord regeneration. eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.55665

Cañizares MA, Rodrigo Albors A, Singer G, Suttie N, Gorkic M, Felts P, Storey KG. (2019). Multiple steps characterise ventricular layer attrition to form the ependymal cell lining of the adult mouse spinal cord central canal. J Anat. doi: 10.1111/joa.13094

Rodrigo Albors A*, Halley PA*, Storey KG. (2018) Lineage tracing of axial progenitors using Nkx1-2CreERT2 mice defines their trunk and tail contributions. Development. doi: 10.1242/dev.164319 

Rost F*, Rodrigo Albors A*, Mazurov V, Brusch L, Deutsch A, Tanaka EM, Chara O. (2016). Accelerated cell divisions drive the outgrowth of the regenerating spinal cord in axolotls. eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20357

Rodrigo Albors A, Storey KG. (2016). Mapping body-building potential. eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.14830

Rodrigo Albors A*, Tazaki A*, Rost F, Nowoshilow S, Chara O, Tanaka EM. (2015). Planar cell polarity-mediated induction of neural stem cell expansion during axolotl spinal cord regeneration. eLife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.10230

Rodrigo Albors A, Tanaka EM. (2015). High-efficiency electroporation of the spinal cord in larval axolotl. Methods Mol Biol 1290, 115-125. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2495-0_9

Alumni

Eunkyoon Lee, BMedSci Hons Student (Developmental, Regeneration and Stem Cells). Now: back to Medical School.

Collaborators

Prof Steve Pollard, The University of Edinburgh

Funders

Wellcome

The University of Edinburgh

The Royal Society

Medical Research Scotland

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