Susana Castro Obregón

Cellular and molecular neuroscience session | The title of the talk is not defined yet.

Susana Castro Obregón is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Fisiología Celular (IFC) at UNAM in Mexico City. She is a Humboldt Fellow and a former Pew Latin American Fellow, recognized for her pioneering work in cellular senescence and autophagy. Her research investigates how these fundamental processes influence nervous system development, aging, and genome stability.

Her current work focuses on mechanisms of autophagy, including nucleophagy, in mammalian models such as mouse embryos and naked mole-rats, exploring how failures in autophagy contribute to neurodegenerative diseases and aging-related cellular dysfunctions. Her lab also studies comparative biology to understand how different species maintain cellular health over the lifespan.

She has received numerous awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the Miguel Alemán Medical Research Prize, and the Dr. Jorge Rosenkranz Medical Research Prize, and she mentors the next generation of scientists in Mexico through graduate and undergraduate programs at UNAM.