Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
MPhil research project in the Galliano Lab, investigating the role of dopaminergic neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb in odour sensitivity and discrimination tasks through chemogenetic manipulation of in DAT-Cre transgenic mice.
7-month research project at the NeCog-UAM laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Campo. ◦ Investigating pattern separation in humans through Representational Similarity Analysis of EEG signals. ◦ Studying the influence of contextual cues on pattern separation and pattern completion processes through a modified version of the Mnemonic Similarity Task. ◦ Techniques: EEG recordings, programming in Matlab.
Research Internship at the Cognition, Attention and Learning Lab (CALL) to conduct my bachelor thesis under the supervision of Prof. M Pilar Aivar. ◦ Collaboration with NeCog-UAM for a joint project studying contextual influences on pattern separation in humans. ◦ Eye movement analysis while participants perform a modified version of the Mnemonic Similarity Task using Eyelink 1000.
Selected for the highly competitive Amgen Scholars Program (2.3% acceptance rate) at LMU Munich. ◦ 9-week full-time research internship in the department of Prof. Rüdiguer Klein. ◦ Investigated the role of CeA projections to PSTN in hedonic feeding behaviour in mice. ◦ Hands-on experience with whole-cell patch clamp. ◦ Presented my results at the Amgen European Symposium in the University of Cambridge. ◦ Techniques: chemogenetics, whole-cell patch clamp, viral tracing, immunoflouorescence assays and confocal microscopy.
Full-time research internship at Prof. Gisella Vetere's laboratory. ◦ Optogenetic manipulation of a CFC memory engram in the dCA1, using activity- and light-dependent labelling technique FLiCRE. ◦ My main tasks included histological analysis, cFos mapping, cell counting and immunofluorescence assays. ◦ Conducted topographical analysis of different engram subpopulations with in vivo Ca2+ imaging data in Matlab. ◦ Worked on pilot project investigating the role of different BLA subpopulations in conditioned place preference. ◦ Techniques: optogenetics, in vivo Ca2+ imaging, confocal microscopy, contextual fear conditioning, Matlab analysis.