Catherina Becker

Catherina Gwynne Becker is Professor of Neural Development and Regeneration[1] at the University of Edinburgh, and deputy director of the centre for discovery brain sciences.

Catherina Gwynne Becker

Born (1964-10-30) 30 October 1964
Marburg
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Bremen
Scientific career
FieldsRegenerative Neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh

Early life and education

Catherina Becker was born in Marburg, Germany in 1964. She was educated at the Kippenberg Gymnasium in Bremen, before going on to study at the University of Bremen where she obtained an MSci of Biology and her PhD (Dr. rer. Nat.) in 1993, investigating visual system development and regeneration in frogs and salamanders.[2][3] She then trained as post-doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, the Department Dev Cell Biol funded by an EMBO long-term fellowship, at the University of California, Irvine in USA and the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Germany where she took a position of group leader in 2000.

Career

Becker joined the University of Edinburgh in 2005 as senior Lecturer and was appointed personal chair in neural development and regeneration in 2013. She was also the Director of Postgraduate Training at the Centre for NeuroRegeneration up to 2015, then centre director up to 2017.

Research

Becker’s research focuses on a better understanding of the factors governing the generation of neurons and axonal pathfinding in the CNS during development and regeneration using the zebrafish model to identify fundamental mechanisms in vertebrates with clear translational implications for CNS injury and neurodegenerative diseases.[4]

Awards
  • 2016 MRC Suffrage in Science Award[5]
  • 2016 Eurolife Distinguished Lecture[6]

References
  1. Becker, Catharina. "Beckers' group". Discovery Brain Science. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  2. Becker, C. G.; Becker, T.; Roth, G. (1993). "Distribution of NCAM-180 and polysialic acid in the developing tectum mesencephali of the frog Discoglossus pictus and the salamander Pleurodeles waltl". Cell Tissue Research. 272 (2): 289–301. doi:10.1007/BF00302734. PMID 8513482. S2CID 21421453.
  3. Becker, T.; Becker, C. G.; Niemann, U.; Naujoks-Manteuffel, C.; Gerardy-Schahn, R.; Roth, G. (1993). "Amphibian-specific regulation of polysialic acid and the neural cell adhesion molecule in development and regeneration of the retinotectal system of the salamander Pleurodeles waltl". Journal of Computational Neurology. 336 (4): 532–544. doi:10.1002/cne.903360406. PMID 8245224. S2CID 40389071.
  4. "Beckers' Projects". Edinburgh Research Explorer. The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  5. "MRC Suffrage in Science Award". Ed archive. The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  6. "Eurolife Distinguished Lecture". Ed archive. The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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