Rate My Professor Julia Edgar

Julia Edgar has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, including influential works such as Funfschilling et al. (2012) 'Glycolytic oligodendrocytes maintain myelin and long-term axonal integrity' in Nature; Edgar et al. (2004) 'Oligodendroglial modulation of fast axonal transport in a mouse model of hereditary spastic paraplegia' in the Journal of Cell Biology; Schäffner et al. (2023) 'Myelin insulation as a risk factor for axonal degeneration in autoimmune demyelinating disease' in Nature Neuroscience; and de Almeida et al. (2023) 'Fractalkine enhances oligodendrocyte regeneration and remyelination in a demyelination mouse model' in Stem Cell Reports. She has received the Best Paper in J Anatomy 2021 award from the Anatomical Society, the 2017 MVLS College Teaching Excellence Award as part of a team, and has organized international meetings including the 7th and 8th International Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Degeneration conferences. Edgar chairs the Scientific Advisory Panel for Motor Neuron Disease Scotland since 2020, serves on Multiple Sclerosis Society funding and treatment advisory committees, and coordinates postgraduate taught programs and courses in neuroscience, immunology, brain sciences, and veterinary biosciences at the University of Glasgow. Her recent grants include Multiple Sclerosis Society awards for investigating axo-glial signalling in progressive MS (2020-2023) and the role of KIF21B in glia (2024-2027).