Vidaki Marina
May 9, 2025 2025-05-09 14:38Vidaki Marina
Vidaki Marina
Assistant Professor Molecular Cellular Biology
Medical School, University of Crete, P.C. 71003 Heraklion, Crete
Marina Vidaki is an Assistant Professor of Molecular-Cellular Biology at the Medical School of the University of Crete (UoC). She received her BSc in Biology from the Department of Biology at the UoC, her MSc in Molecular Biology-Biomedicine (UoC) and her PhD in Developmental Neurobiology (UoC). She continued as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and a visiting researcher at the Department of Biology at MIT, USA.
University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2005-2010: PhD in Developmental Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece
2003-2005: MSc in Molecular Biology & Biomedicine, Department of Biology & Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece
1999-2003: BSc in Biology, Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece
Our main goal is to understand how connectivity in the nervous system (NS) is established and repaired.
To this end, we study axon biology, both during development and regeneration, focusing on mechanisms of local mRNA translation. Defective local mRNA translation is implicated in numerous neurodevelopmental disorders, as well as in the limited capacity of the adult central NS (CNS) to regenerate. We are interested in the molecular repertoire of axons, its regulation via local translation during guidance and regeneration, and how its manipulation can modulate axonal behavior.
Hellenic Society for Neuroscience (HSfN)
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
ALBA Network in Brain Sciences
International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
