Education:
MRes Neuroscience (focus areas: bioinformatics, medical genetics, neuroscience), Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University.
Ilina's MRes dissertation entailed investigating genes and cellular pathways involved in neuromuscular disorders and was completed at the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre. Here, they also assisted with Software Carpentries workshops.
BSc Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
Ilina completed a laboratory-based dissertation at the Institute of Neurology (PI: Prof Sir John Hardy) investigating the pathways of autophagy and mitophagy in Parkinson's Disease by employing Polygenic Risk Scoring and a literature-based dissertation at the Institute of Neurology discussing neuroinflammation and the role of glia in dementia (PI: Prof Jennifer Pocock). At UCL, they also worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Healthy Ageing and served as the President of the UCL Neuroscience Society.
