Carolina Campos Rodriguez

Dr. Campos Rodriguez earned a BS in Industrial Pharmaceutical Chemistry and a MSc and PhD (July 2018) in Biological Chemistry, applied to epilepsy drug discovery, from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (National School of Biological Sciences Faculty). In 2019, she joined the GU family as a postdoctoral fellow of the Forcelli research group to study the mechanisms of seizure control. She applies optogenetic techniques in different cell populations from the pedunculopontine nucleus and related structures in acute animal models of epilepsy as well as in chronic and genetic model of the disease. Dr. Campos Rodriguez is also involved in Dr. Malkova’s research on the neural substrates of memory and learning in animal models.

Academic Appointment(s)

Secondary
Staff Scientist , Forcelli & Malkova Labs