尼古拉·艾伦,博士

教授

分子神经生物学实验室

Roger Guillemin Chair

索尔克生物研究所 - 新闻

新闻


How do astrocytes contribute to fragile X syndrome?

Highlights Salk neuroscientists found how specialized brain cells called astrocytes contribute to fragile X syndrome symptoms They discovered a protein pathway that, when suppressed, can alleviate some symptoms in a mouse model …

大脑如何保持稳定,何时灵活的调整会有帮助?

LA JOLLA—Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child’s brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic connections between neurons. These wiring patterns become more stable with age, but …


索尔克研究所晋升三名神经科学、免疫学和癌症研究领域的教职员工

LA JOLLA—Three Salk Institute faculty members have been promoted for their notable, innovative contributions to science. Associate Professors Nicola Allen and Diana Hargreaves were promoted to full professors, and Assistant Professor …


索尔克研究所的尼古拉·艾伦荣获 2024 年 NIH 院长先锋奖

LA JOLLA—The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Salk Associate Professor Nicola Allen to receive a 2024 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The award recognizes exceptionally creative scientists pursuing highly …


索尔克研究所启动神经免疫学计划,获得诺米斯基金会 $2000 万美元捐赠

加拉(LA JOLLA)—萨克研究所将收到$来自诺米斯基金会(NOMIS Foundation)的2000万美元,为期四年,用于在研究所的诺米斯免疫生物学和微生物中心内启动一项新的神经免疫学计划……


Beyond neurons: How cells called astrocytes contribute to brain disorders

LA JOLLA—Neurons often get most of the credit for keeping our brains sharp and functioning—as well as most of the blame when it comes to brain diseases. But star-shaped cells …


Call-and-response circuit tells neurons when to grow synapses

LA JOLLA—Brain cells called astrocytes play a key role in helping neurons develop and function properly, but there’s still a lot scientists don’t understand about how astrocytes perform these important …


索尔克科学家获得$1290万美元的美国国立卫生研究院脑计划资助

LA JOLLA—Salk Institute scientists Nicola Allen, Eiman Azim, Margarita Behrens, and Joseph Ecker have been named recipients in the 2019 round of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand the brain.

The …


Kavli基金会捐赠300万美元$支持Salk研究所的前沿神经科学研究

LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute announced today that The Kavli Foundation has committed $3 million to support ongoing neuroscience research at Salk as part of the joint UCSD-Salk Kavli Institute for …


Salk promotes Nicola Allen and Julie Law to associate professor

LA JOLLA—The Salk Institute has promoted Nicola Allen and Julie Law to the rank of associate professor for their notable contributions to neurobiology and plant biology, respectively. The promotions were based …


Nicola Allen receives $2.5 million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative early career award

LA JOLLA—Nicola Allen, an assistant professor in Salk’s Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, has received a five-year, $2.5 million Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), as …


Salk awarded $19.2 million by the American Heart Association-Allen Initiative to study Alzheimer’s and aging in the brain

LA JOLLA—A team of Salk Institute researchers led by President Rusty Gage has been awarded $19.2 million over eight years by the American Heart Association-Allen Initiative in Brain Health and …


Brain cells called astrocytes have unexpected role in brain “plasticity”

Astrocytes are the main cell type in the brain producing Chrdl1. Through a technique called fluorescence in situ hybridization, the RNA of different proteins is tagged with fluorescent labels. In …

What happens when your brain’s support cells aren’t so supportive?

LA JOLLA—Potentially explaining why even healthy brains don’t function well with age, Salk researchers have discovered that genes that are switched on early in brain development to sever connections between …


Can you hear me now? Ensuring good cellular connections in the brain

LA JOLLA—To have a good phone conversation, you need a good cellular connection. What's true for mobile phones also turns out to be true for neurons.

Salk Institute scientists have …


Salk Institute scientist Nicola Allen named Pew Scholar

LA JOLLA–The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that Salk Institute scientist Nicola Allen, an assistant professor in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, is one of 22 researchers to be named a …


教育

BSc, Anatomical Sciences, University of Manchester, England
PhD, Neuroscience, University College London
斯坦福大学博士后研究员


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奖项与荣誉

  • National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, 2024
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Career Accelerator Award, 2018
  • Coins For Alzheimer’s Research Trust (CART) Award, 2018
  • World Economic Forum Young Scientist, 2017
  • Dana Foundation Neuroimaging Award, 2016
  • Pew Biomedical Scholar Award, 2015
  • Whitehall Foundation Award, 2014
  • Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, 2013
  • Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Fellowship
  • European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Fellowship