Postdoctoral Fellow
Cigdem Acioglu received her Ph.D. in Medical Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Institute of Health Sciences, Kocaeli University, Turkey. She joined the Reynolds Family Spine Laboratory in 2013 as a visiting researcher. She performed her doctoral research with Dr. Stella Elkabes and Dr. Robert F. Heary in collaboration with Dr. Ahmet Tarik Baykal. Her current research focuses on the effects of TLR9 antagonism on mouse spinal cord neurons, astroglia, and astrocyte-neuron interactions.
Cigdem received her M.S. from The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Gebze Institute of Technology in Turkey with a concentration in cell biology. She was awarded The National M.Sc. Fellowship from The Scientific and Technological Research Center of Turkey for her master’s degree. She graduated from Istanbul University with a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics in 2007.
Related Publications:
Pathological pain processing in mouse models of multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury: contribution of plasma membrane calcium ATPase 2 (PMCA2).
Journal of Neuroinflammation, November 2019
A link between plasma membrane calcium ATPase 2 (PMCA2), estrogen and estrogen receptor a signaling in mechanical pain.
Scientific Reports, November 2018
A toll-like receptor 9 antagonist restores below-level glial glutamate transporter expression in the dorsal horn following spinal cord injury.
Scientific Reports, June 2018
Toll like receptor 9 antagonism modulates spinal cord neuronal function and survival: Direct versus astrocyte-mediated mechanisms.
Brain Behavior Immunity, August 2016
mTor is a signaling hub in cell survival: a mass-spectrometry-based proteomics investigation.
Journal or Proteome Research, May 2014
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