Dr. Clio Dritsa
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Roe Group Member: 2025 – Present
I hold a BSc in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Reading (2018) and an MSc in Neuroscience (2020) from King’s College London, where my research in Dr Glebov’s lab focused on temperature-dependent structural synaptic plasticity of hippocampal neurons.
I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow, funded by the MVLS Doctoral Training Programme, under the supervision of Prof Donal Wall and Prof Richard Burchmore. My research explored gut-microbiome-brain interactions, using metabolomics, transcriptomics, fluorescence microscopy, and neural stem cell models to investigate the impact of bacterial-derived metabolites on the brain. Additionally, I conducted a spatial transcriptomics study on germ-free and specific-pathogen free mice to analyse gene expression changes in key brain regions, in collaboration with an industrial partner.
Currently, in the Roe Lab, my research involves co-culturing lab-on-a-chip human-derived bone marrow stem cells with clinical bacterial strains. This works aims to study how infections and immune responses influence cancer dormancy and reactivation. This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Publications
Feng Z, Saha L, Dritsa C, Wan Q, Glebov OO. Temperature-dependent structural plasticity of hippocampal synapses. Front Cell Neurosci. 2022 Oct 19;16:1009970. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2022.1009970
