Kristina Berve

 Kristina earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and her Master’s degree in Translational Neuroscience from the University of Würzburg, Germany. During her undergraduate studies, she explored how adaptive and innate immune cells can be modulated in a rare and devastating lysosomal storage disorder of the brain. She pursued her PhD in Neuroscience, specializing in Neuroimmunology, at the University of Bern. Her research focused on the mechanisms underlying immune cell trafficking across central nervous system barriers in the context of MS.

Currently, Kristina is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Pröbstel Lab at the University Hospital Basel. In her work, she investigates the pathogenic effects of patient-derived autoantibodies in MOGAD using in vivo humanized mouse models. Further, she aims to elucidate the relationship between leaky gut in MS and the dynamics of B lymphocyte trafficking from the gut to the central nervous system.

MS: Multiple sclerosis 

MOGAD:Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease