John Palmer

John R.B. Palmer
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona
Principal investigator

Community-driven big data intelligence to fight mosquito-borne disease.

• Frederic Bartumeus Ferré (PL)
  Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes
  Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CEAB-CSIC), Girona

• Emilio Zagheni
  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock

• Diana Gómez Barroso
  National Center of Epidemiology (CNE), Madrid

• Roger Eritja
  Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry, Barcelona

John Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a member of the Sociodemography Research Group (DemoSoc) and the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM), and his research explores human mobility, inequality, and health from multiple perspectives, including sociodemography, ecology, and law. Palmer leads the ERC-funded Human-Mosquito Interaction Project and is also a principal investigator in the Big Mosquito Bytes, MosquitoAlertBCN, Abilities and Intergenerational Social Mobility, and Distancia-Covid projects. His training is a combination of ecology, law (both at Cornell University), and demography (Princeton University). (Read full CV).

I am a neurologist with an interest in neurodegenerative diseases, in particular the TDP-43 ‘proteinopathies’ ALS and FTD. I am interested scientifically in the genetics of ALS-FTD, TDP-43 biology, in particular autoregulation, axon degeneration and SARM1 biology, RNA processing and RNA protein interactions. My disease model interests include mice, flies and human induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurons and glia.

I am also involved in clinical trials involving small molecules and gene therapies.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: (+34) 93 542 23 46

Email: [email protected]