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Research groups

Kathryn Todd

PhD

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow

I have been a member of Prof. Cragg's group since January 2023, after moving from the University of Auckland in New Zealand where I completed my PhD (2021) and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow. I am primarily interested in understanding how various striatal neuromodulators regulate axonal dopamine release in health and Parkinson's disease and investigate this using fast-scan cyclic voltammetry and imaging of genetically-encoded fluorescent sensors in rodent ex-vivo brain slices.

I am currently working as a senior postdoctoral fellow, with a CRN Discovery Fellowship from Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP). I am investigating how distinct striatal neuromodulators differentially regulate molecularly-distinct DA axons that are resistant versus vulnerable to degeneration in Parkinson's disease, which I envisage could inform the development of targeted and improved strategies to rescue dopamine dysfunction in Parkinson's.