***Maria Eugenia Ferreiro

Eugenia obtained her Degree in Biotechnology in the Argentinian University of Enterprise (UADE – Argentina) in 2017. She accomplished an honours degree thesis in the University of Buenos Aires working on the molecular mechanisms driving male infertility. In between 2017 and 2019, Eugenia worked in the Centre of Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapy (Maimonides University – Argentina), developing stem cell differentiation and primary cell culture expertise. She joined the Faulkner lab in 2020, first as a research assistant and later as a PhD student. She is currently working in the Queensland Brain Institute and her project aims to understand the role of L1 retrotransposons in neurodegeneration.