Postdoctoral Scholar
M_Neurology
Alicia is a wet-lab researcher investigating host–microbiome interactions in multiple sclerosis. During her PhD in Madrid, she studied disease-modifying therapies, with expertise in patient-based immunophenotyping, transcriptomics, and biomarker discovery, and in mechanisms of action involving immune modulation and neuroprotective pathways. She now profiles antibody repertoires against gut bacteria using PhIP-Seq in people with MS and uses fecal microbiota transplantation in germ-free mice to test causal neuroimmune effects.