George E. Barreto earned his PhD in Neuroscience (2009) from the Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain) studying the effects of neurosteroids on reactive glia with traumatic brain injury under the supervision of Professor Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura. His Post-doctoral training in Neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine (2009-2011), under the mentorship of Professor Rona G. Giffard, focused on addressing the role of astrocytes activation following stroke and enhance astrocytic functions targeting neuronal protection. With the collaboration of Professor Carla J. Shatz, also from Stanford, Dr Barreto and cols discovered that both PirB receptor and MHCI molecules are involved in the physiopathology of stroke by regulating astroglia activation and behavioural outcome.
George joined the University of Limerick (UL, Ireland) in 2019. Nowadays he is a Professor in Cell Biology/Immunology and Assistant Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Faculty of Science & Engineering. Furthermore, George is the Erasmus Coordinator (Biological Sciences), Deputy Chair of EDF, the Chair of Action Implementation subgroup in the Equality, Diversity Forum (EDF) Committee, and member of the Athena Swan Steering Committee at UL. These are tremendous and exciting initiatives to promote inclusion in an active and participatory way, promoting institutional campaigns to encourage tolerance, respect and educating for others.
Teaching interests
George currently teaches on the B.Sc. in Bioscience and MS.c in Biomolecular Science at UL, where his broad interests are in the area of neurobiology, neuroimmunology, and neuropharmacology. He is currently the leader for the following modules:
