Having completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, Vikki first joined the Thuret lab during her MSc in Neuroscience at KCL, where she specialised in Neural Stem Cells and Nervous System Repair. During this time, she investigated the effects of caffeine on hippocampal neurogenesis, as part of the wider EU Consortium, ‘Diet Cognition and Plasticity’. She returned to the Thuret lab in 2021 to begin her PhD, under co-supervision by Prof. Alexandra Santos at KCL’s Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.
As part of the Wellcome Trust PhD programme ‘Neuro-Immune Interactions in Health and Disease’, Vikki’s project aims at understanding how food allergy impacts children’s mental health and cognition. Specifically, her project will investigate hippocampal neurogenesis as a potential underlying biological mechanism associated with these mental health changes and will ultimately try to identify which food allergy-induced immune factors may be responsible for any such observed changes.
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