
AINHOA PLAZA-ZABALA
Ainhoa Plaza-Zabala
Postdoctoral researcher
Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience
Our aim is to understand the regulatory interactions between autophagy and phagocytosis in microglia, the brain innate immune effector. More specifically, we are studying the cross-talk between autophagy and phagocytosis in microglia during metabolic restriction conditions, which may be relevant to understand the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying ischemic brain injury.