Kathleen Hagen

Lab Technician

BSc (Hons) - Psychology with Neuroscience option

Acadia University, 2018

MSc - Neuroscience

University of Calgary, 2022

Contact information

Location

Office : HMRB105

Biography

Having grown up with two parents in the Canadian Air Force, I moved around quite a bit as a child. After high school I completed a BSc with Honours in Psychology from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. For my honours thesis, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Anne Sophie Champod developing a novel therapeutic for a stroke complication known as spatial neglect. After graduating in 2018, I moved to Calgary to pursue my MSc in Neuroscience in the lab of Dr. Shalina Ousman. My MSc work examined the effects of aging on peripheral nerve injury and regeneration. After finishing my MSc degree, I began working for Dr. Wee Yong as a lab technician focusing on tissue culture.

Publications

  1. Hagen KM, and Ousman SS. The neuroimmunology of Guillain-Barré syndrome and the potential role of an aging immune system. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 12:613628. 2021.
  2. Hagen KM, and Ousman SS. The immune response and aging in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 18:78. 2021.
  3. Lim EF, Hoghooghi V, Hagen KM, Kapoor K, Frederick A, Finlay TM, and Ousman SS. Presence and activation of pro-inflammatory macrophages are associated with CRYAB expression in vitro and after peripheral nerve injury. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 18:82. 2021.
  4. Hagen KM, and Ousman SS. Aging and the immune response in diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 355:577574. 2021.
  5. Umansky D, Hagen KM, Chu TH, Pathiyil RK, Alzahrani S, Ousman SS, and Midha R. Functional gait assessment using manual, semi-automated and deep learning approaches following standardized models of peripheral nerve injury in mice. Biomolecules. 12:1355. 2022.
  6. Hagen KM, Gordon P, Frederick A, Palmer AL, Edalat P, Zonta YR, Scott L, Flancia M, Reid JK, Joel M, and Ousman SS. CRYAB plays a role in terminating the presence of pro-inflammatory macrophages in the older, injured mouse peripheral nervous system. Neurobiology of Aging. 133:1–15. 2024.

Awards

  • Spinal Cord, Nerve Injury & Pain Studentship Award
  • Keith Sharkey Graduate Travel Award
  • Canadian Association for Neuroscience Travel Award
  • SFN Trainee Professional Development Award
  • Honours Summer Research Award