Education
Honors graduate in School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Australia, 2012
Current Position
PhD Candidate: Neuroendocrinology of the Obese Brain Research Group, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
Publications
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Soch, A., Bradburn, S., Sominsky, L., De Luca, S. N., Murgatroyd, C. and Spencer, S. J. (2016). Effects of exercise on adolescent and adult hypothalamic and hippocampal neuroinflammation. Hippocampus 26(11): 1435-1446.
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De Luca, S. N., Ziko, I., Sominsky, L., Nguyen, J. C., Dinan, T., Miller, A. A., Jenkins, T. A. and Spencer, S. J. (2016). Early life overfeeding impairs spatial memory performance by reducing microglial sensitivity to learning. J Neuroinflammation 13(1): 112.
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Cai, G., Dinan, T., Barwood, J. M., De Luca, S. N., Soch, A., Ziko, I., Chan, S. M., Zeng, X. Y., Li, S., Molero, J. and Spencer, S. J. (2014). Neonatal overfeeding attenuates acute central pro-inflammatory effects of short-term high fat diet. Front Neurosci 8: 446.
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Ziko, I., De Luca, S., Dinan, T., Barwood, J. M., Sominsky, L., Cai, G., Kenny, R., Stokes, L., Jenkins, T. A. and Spencer, S. J. (2014). Neonatal overfeeding alters hypothalamic microglial profiles and central responses to immune challenge long-term. Brain Behav Immun 41: 32-43.