Dr Conceição Bettencourt

Conceição Bettencourt (Photo: UCL) - This week we meet Dr Conceição Bettencourt, Senior Research Fellow at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, who chats to us about being awarded a fellowship from Alzheimer's Research UK in 2020 and her current work investigating changes in DNA methylation. What is your role and what does it involve?. I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and Queen Square Brain Bank, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. My current research focuses on brain DNA methylation alterations, their downstream consequences on gene expression, and their role in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and other neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple system atrophy (MSA). My work entails wet lab experiments as well as bioinformatic data analysis. How long have you been at UCL and what was your previous role?. It is actually my eighth work anniversary at UCL this month.