Abel Torres Espin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MSc Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 2022
• Postdoctoral Neuroinformatics University of California San Francisco 2021
• Postdoctoral Neuroscience, spinal cord injury University of Alberta 2018
• PhD Neuroscience, spinal cord injury Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2013
• BSc Biology Universitat de Barcelona 2007

Publications (44)

Top publication keywords:
Recovery of FunctionNerve RegenerationCervical CordSpinal CordArterial PressureMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationPhysical Conditioning, AnimalMotor SkillsForelimbWeightlessnessRats, Inbred LewFood Dispensers, AutomaticMyelitisCommon Data ElementsSpinal Cord Injuries

• Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans prevent immune cell phenotypic conversion and inflammation resolution via TLR4 in rodent models of spinal cord injury.
  Nature communications 2022 Francos-Quijorna I, Sánchez-Petidier M, Burnside ER, Badea SR, Torres-Espin A, Marshall L, de Winter F, Verhaagen J, Moreno-Manzano V, Bradbury EJ
• Unsupervised Machine Learning on Motion Capture Data Uncovers Movement Strategies in Low Back Pain.
  Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 2022 Keller AV, Torres-Espin A, Peterson TA, Booker J, O'Neill C, Lotz JC, Bailey JF, Ferguson AR, Matthew RP
• Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome.
  PloS one 2022 Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Kyritsis N, Huie JR, Khatry S, Funk J, Hay J, Lofgreen A, Shah R, McCann C, Pascual LU, Amorim E, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Pan JZ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Whetstone…
• Empowering Data Sharing and Analytics through the Open Data Commons for Traumatic Brain Injury Research.
  Neurotrauma reports 2022 Chou A, Torres-Espín A, Huie JR, Krukowski K, Lee S, Nolan A, Guglielmetti C, Hawkins BE, Chaumeil MM, Manley GT, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Martone ME, Grethe JS, Rosi S, Ferguson AR
• Decision tree-based machine learning analysis of intraoperative vasopressor use to optimize neurological improvement in acute spinal cord injury.
  Neurosurgical focus 2022 Agarwal N, Aabedi AA, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Wozny TA, Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Ferguson AR, Kyritsis N, Dhall SS, Weinstein PR, Duong-Fernandez X, Pan J, Singh V, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Whetstone …

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• Appendicular Fracture and Polytrauma Correlate with Outcome of Spinal Cord Injury: A Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Spinal Cord Injury Study.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2022 Miclau TA, Torres-Espin A, Morshed S, Morioka K, Huie JR, El Naga AN, Chou A, Pascual L, Duong-Fernandez X, Kuo YH, Weinstein P, Dhall SS, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Digiorgio A, Ferguson AR, …
• Using hierarchical unsupervised learning to integrate and reduce multi-level and multi-paraspinal muscle MRI data in relation to low back pain.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2022 Torres-Espin A, Keller A, Johnson GTA, Fields AJ, Krug R, Ferguson AR, Hargens AR, O'Neill CW, Lotz JC, Bailey JF
• Mixture Model Framework for Traumatic Brain Injury Prognosis Using Heterogeneous Clinical and Outcome Data.
  IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2022 Kaplan AD, Cheng Q, Mohan KA, Nelson LD, Jain S, Levin H, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Huie JR, Ferguson AR, McCrea M, Giacino J, Sundaram S, Markowitz AJ, Manley GT
• Topological network analysis of patient similarity for precision management of acute blood pressure in spinal cord injury.
  eLife 2021 Torres-Espín A, Haefeli J, Ehsanian R, Torres D, Almeida CA, Huie JR, Chou A, Morozov D, Sanderson N, Dirlikov B, Suen CG, Nielson JL, Kyritsis N, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Manley GT, Dhall SS, …
• FAIR Data Reuse in Traumatic Brain Injury: Exploring Inflammation and Age as Moderators of Recovery in the TRACK-TBI Pilot.
  Frontiers in neurology 2021 Huie JR, Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Nielson JL, Yuh EL, Gardner RC, Diaz-Arrastia R, Manley GT, Ferguson AR, TRACK-TBI Investigators
• Quantifying the kinematic features of dexterous finger movements in nonhuman primates with markerless tracking.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2021 North R, Wurr R, Macon R, Mannion C, Hyde J, Torres-Espin A, Rosenzweig ES, Ferguson AR, Tuszynski MH, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Joiner WM
• Promoting FAIR Data Through Community-driven Agile Design: the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury (odc-sci.org).
  Neuroinformatics 2021 Torres-Espín A, Almeida CA, Chou A, Huie JR, Chiu M, Vavrek R, Sacramento J, Orr MB, Gensel JC, Grethe JS, Martone ME, Fouad K, Ferguson AR, STREET-FAIR Workshop Participants
• Beyond the lesion site: minocycline augments inflammation and anxiety-like behavior following SCI in rats through action on the gut microbiota.
  Journal of neuroinflammation 2021 Schmidt EKA, Raposo PJF, Torres-Espin A, Fenrich KK, Fouad K
• Excavating FAIR Data: the Case of the Multicenter Animal Spinal Cord Injury Study (MASCIS), Blood Pressure, and Neuro-Recovery.
  Neuroinformatics 2021 Almeida CA, Torres-Espin A, Huie JR, Sun D, Noble-Haeusslein LJ, Young W, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Nielson JL, Ferguson AR
• Diagnostic blood RNA profiles for human acute spinal cord injury.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2021 Kyritsis N, Torres-Espín A, Schupp PG, Huie JR, Chou A, Duong-Fernandez X, Thomas LH, Tsolinas RE, Hemmerle DD, Pascual LU, Singh V, Pan JZ, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Weinstein…
• Automation of training and testing motor and related tasks in pre-clinical behavioural and rehabilitative neuroscience.
  Experimental neurology 2021 Mah KM, Torres-Espín A, Hallworth BW, Bixby JL, Lemmon VP, Fouad K, Fenrich KK
• Cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy is associated with neuronal senescence-like response.
  Neuro-oncology 2021 Calls A, Torres-Espin A, Navarro X, Yuste VJ, Udina E, Bruna J
• Reproducible analysis of disease space via principal components using the novel R package syndRomics.
  eLife 2021 Torres-Espín A, Chou A, Huie JR, Kyritsis N, Upadhyayula PS, Ferguson AR
• Self-directed rehabilitation training intensity thresholds for efficient recovery of skilled forelimb function in rats with cervical spinal cord injury.
  Experimental neurology 2020 Fenrich KK, Hallworth BW, Vavrek R, Raposo PJF, Misiaszek JE, Bennett DJ, Fouad K, Torres-Espin A
• Injury volume extracted from MRI predicts neurologic outcome in acute spinal cord injury: A prospective TRACK-SCI pilot study.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2020 Mummaneni N, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris M, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Russell Huie J, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, Kyritsis N, Weinstein PR, …
• Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Spinal Cord Injury (TRACK-SCI): an overview of initial enrollment and demographics.
  Neurosurgical focus 2020 Tsolinas RE, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris MH, Yue JK, Winkler EA, Suen CG, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Huie JR, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, …
• Fecal transplant prevents gut dysbiosis and anxiety-like behaviour after spinal cord injury in rats.
  PloS one 2020 Schmidt EKA, Torres-Espin A, Raposo PJF, Madsen KL, Kigerl KA, Popovich PG, Fenrich KK, Fouad K
• FAIR SCI Ahead: The Evolution of the Open Data Commons for Pre-Clinical Spinal Cord Injury Research.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2019 Fouad K, Bixby JL, Callahan A, Grethe JS, Jakeman LB, Lemmon VP, Magnuson DSK, Martone ME, Nielson JL, Schwab JM, Taylor-Burds C, Tetzlaff W, Torres-Espin A, Ferguson AR, FAIR-SCI Ahead Workshop …
• Single-session cortical electrical stimulation enhances the efficacy of rehabilitative motor training after spinal cord injury in rats.
  Experimental neurology 2019 Batty NJ, Torres-Espín A, Vavrek R, Raposo P, Fouad K
• Disorders of the Nervous System, Motor Systems
  Mechanisms of Behavioral Changes After Spinal Cord Injury 2019
• Rehabilitative Training in Animal Models of Spinal Cord Injury.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2018 Torres-Espín A, Beaudry E, Fenrich K, Fouad K
• Eliciting inflammation enables successful rehabilitative training in chronic spinal cord injury.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2018 Torres-Espín A, Forero J, Fenrich KK, Lucas-Osma AM, Krajacic A, Schmidt E, Vavrek R, Raposo P, Bennett DJ, Popovich PG, Fouad K
• Following Spinal Cord Injury Transected Reticulospinal Tract Axons Develop New Collateral Inputs to Spinal Interneurons in Parallel with Locomotor Recovery.
  Neural plasticity 2017 May Z, Fenrich KK, Dahlby J, Batty NJ, Torres-Espín A, Fouad K
• A motorized pellet dispenser to deliver high intensity training of the single pellet reaching and grasping task in rats.
  Behavioural brain research 2017 Torres-Espín A, Forero J, Schmidt EKA, Fouad K, Fenrich KK
• Cyclosporine-immunosuppression does not affect survival of transplanted skin-derived precursor Schwann cells in the injured rat spinal cord.
  Neuroscience letters 2017 May Z, Torres-Espín A, Lucas-Osma AM, Batty NJ, Raposo P, Fenrich KK, Stykel MG, Führmann T, Shoichet M, Biernaskie J, Fouad K
• Effects of the Post-Spinal Cord Injury Microenvironment on the Differentiation Capacity of Human Neural Stem Cells Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
  Cell transplantation 2016 López-Serrano C, Torres-Espín A, Hernández J, Alvarez-Palomo AB, Requena J, Gasull X, Edel MJ, Navarro X
• Beneficial effects of IL-37 after spinal cord injury in mice.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Coll-Miró M, Francos-Quijorna I, Santos-Nogueira E, Torres-Espin A, Bufler P, Dinarello CA, López-Vales R
• Single pellet grasping following cervical spinal cord injury in adult rat using an automated full-time training robot.
  Behavioural brain research 2015 Fenrich KK, May Z, Torres-Espín A, Forero J, Bennett DJ, Fouad K
• Increased migration of olfactory ensheathing cells secreting the Nogo receptor ectodomain over inhibitory substrates and lesioned spinal cord.
  Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS 2015 Reginensi D, Carulla P, Nocentini S, Seira O, Serra-Picamal X, Torres-Espín A, Matamoros-Angles A, Gavín R, Moreno-Flores MT, Wandosell F, Samitier J, Trepat X, Navarro X, del Río JA
• Immunosuppression of allogenic mesenchymal stem cells transplantation after spinal cord injury improves graft survival and beneficial outcomes.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2015 Torres-Espín A, Redondo-Castro E, Hernandez J, Navarro X
• Activity dependent therapies modulate the spinal changes that motoneurons suffer after a peripheral nerve injury.
  Experimental neurology 2014 Arbat-Plana A, Torres-Espín A, Navarro X, Udina E
• Dithiocarb (N,N-diethyldithiocarbamate, DEDTC) decreases levels of biogenic monoamines in the adult mouse brain.
  Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2014 Redondo-Castro E, Romero R, Torres-Espín A, Utrera J, Duque D, Junyent F, Auladell C
• Neurite-J: an image-J plug-in for axonal growth analysis in organotypic cultures.
  Journal of neuroscience methods 2014 Torres-Espín A, Santos D, González-Pérez F, del Valle J, Navarro X
• Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells and olfactory ensheathing cells transplantation after spinal cord injury--a morphological and functional comparison in rats.
  The European journal of neuroscience 2014 Torres-Espín A, Redondo-Castro E, Hernández J, Navarro X
• Gene expression changes in the injured spinal cord following transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells or olfactory ensheathing cells.
  PloS one 2013 Torres-Espín A, Hernández J, Navarro X
• Neuroprotection and axonal regeneration after lumbar ventral root avulsion by re-implantation and mesenchymal stem cells transplant combined therapy.
  Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2013 Torres-Espín A, Corona-Quintanilla DL, Forés J, Allodi I, González F, Udina E, Navarro X
• Quantitative assessment of locomotion and interlimb coordination in rats after different spinal cord injuries.
  Journal of neuroscience methods 2013 Redondo-Castro E, Torres-Espín A, García-Alías G, Navarro X
• Adult stem cell transplants for spinal cord injury repair: current state in preclinical research.
  Current stem cell research & therapy 2011 Hernández J, Torres-Espín A, Navarro X
• Functional involvement of the lumbar spinal cord after contusion to T8 spinal segment of the rat.
  Restorative neurology and neuroscience 2010 García-Alías G, Torres-Espín A, Vallejo C, Navarro X