Liviu-Gabriel Bodea

Dr. Liviu-Gabriel Bodea is a Research Fellow at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland, and an affiliate of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research at the Queensland Brain Institute. His expertise lies in neuroimmunology, focusing on microglia-neuron interactions in health and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia.

He obtained his Dr.rer.nat. (PhD) from the University of Bonn (2014) under Prof. Harald Neumann, followed by a Peter Hilton Early Career Fellowship (2014-2019) in Australia with Prof. Jürgen Götz. Since 2024, he leads the Microglia Metabolic Reprogramming and Proteostasis Research Team in Assoc. Prof. Karin Borges' lab.

Research Interests: His work explores:

• Microglial proteostasis and metabolic reprogramming
• Tau protein's impact on protein synthesis
• Role of immune pathways in neurodegeneration
• Development of bioorthogonal labeling techniques for proteomic analysis
• Non-invasive therapeutic strategies (e.g., scanning ultrasound)
• Microglial receptor dynamics (TYROBP, TREM2) in disease

Publications (Trends): Recent articles focus on inflammasome regulation in neurodegeneration, LINE-1 retrotransposon roles in interneuron development, ultrasound-mediated therapies, and proteomic changes during memory formation. His work bridges neuroimmunology, molecular neurobiology, and translational medicine.

Scientific Awards:

• NHMRC Ideas Grant #2030460 (2024-2027, sole CI, ~AU$800,000)
• Dementia Australia Mid-Career Fellowship (2022-2024, AU$375,000)
• Expertscape recognition as top 0.8% tauopathy researcher (2021)
• Cited in 22 patents for neurodegenerative disease mechanisms

Supervision & Leadership: Dr. Bodea has mentored 2 PhD students (both awarded first-class distinctions and pursuing academic careers), 4 Honours students, and >15 smaller projects. He serves as a grant reviewer for NHMRC and top journals, and as Lead Guest Editor for Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (2023).