Maria Ioannou

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Physiology Dept

Email: ioannou@ualberta.ca

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About

Maria Ioannou is currently appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

Research

Our lab aims to understand how lipid trafficking affects neuronal function in development, stroke and Alzheimer's disease. In order to study lipid trafficking we use a combination of biochemistry and microscopy in primary neurons and in vivo mouse models.

Featured Publications

Exocytosis of lipids protect neurons from ferroptosis

Gordon Research Conference; Lysosomes and Endocytosis. 2022 June;

Neurons release fatty acids by late endosome/lysosomal exocytosis

15th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting. 2022 May;

Neuronal ROS-induced glial lipid droplet formation is altered by loss of Alzheimer's disease-associated genes

Moulton M.J., Barish S., Ralhan I., Chang J., Goodman L.D., Harland J.G., Marcogliese P.C., Johansson J.O., Ioannou M.S., Bellen H.J.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2021 December; 118 (52):e2112095118 10.1073/pnas.2112095118

Lipid droplets in the nervous system

Ralhan I., Chang C.L., Lippincott-Schwartz J., Ioannou M.S.

Journal of Cell Biology. 2021 July; 220 (7):e202102136 10.1083/jcb.202102136

New investigators in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

Casadio M., Simon D.

JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY. 2021 January; 220 (2) 10.1083/JCB.202012131