Contact information
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9051-0989
Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin building | Sherrington Road | OX1 3QU
Amin Atashgaran
BSc, MBiol (Hons)
DPhil Candidate / Research Assistant
Extracellular vesicles in biomarker discovery and disease mechanisms of synucleinopathies
Biography
Amin holds an integrated Masters degree in Neuroscience from the University of Leeds. He was awarded with the Beaumont Award for his Masters project, focused on developing cryogenic electron microscopy methods for structural biology of neurodegenerative diseases, in the Frank lab at the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory. During his studies, Amin also completed a year-long research placement, in the Ertekin-Taner lab at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, focused on (epi)genomics of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
Research interests
Amin is currently a DPhil candidate, supervised by Professor George Tofaris, at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. He is interested in discovering the role of extracellular vesicles in synucleinopathies using structural biology and transcriptomics methods.
