TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
POSTDOCS
Magdalena Picher
Postdoc (since 2017)
Hertha Firnberg fellow
Research Area
I am interested in cellular mechanisms underlying spatial learning and coding in the hippocampal CA3 region. To investigate intracellular mechanisms involved in spatial coding in vivo, I am currently performing whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from CA3 pyramidal neurons in awake mice running on a linear belt system for a water reward. By presenting visual and tactile cues, spatially modulated sub and supra place cell activity can be recorded.
Victor Vargas Barroso
Postdoc (since 2017)
IST Fellow
Research Area
I am doing in vitro octuple recordings in rat and mouse acute brain slices. One goal is to elucidate the connectivity rules and plasticity mechanisms of the CA3-CA1 synapse. I am also beginning to study the connectivity of new born granule cells, focusing primarily on their afferent/efferent connections with neurons of the Hilus.
JAKE WATSON
POSTDOC (SINCE 2020)
Research Area
I am studying the mechanisms of information processing in the hippocampal CA3 area. Using multicellular whole-cell recordings, I am determining the arrangement of microcircuit connectivity amongst individual CA3 cells, and how the unique properties of each synaptic connection contributes to processing and storage of neuronal activity.
PhD STUDENTS
Silvia Jamrichova
PhD Student (SINCE 2020)
Research Area
“I am studying the mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity at hippocampal mossy fiber synapse. Specifically, I would like to determine the identity and affinity of the putative calcium sensors for both synchronous and asynchronous neurotransmitter release at this synapse. To address these questions I am using a subcellular patch-clamp technique that allows me to simultaneously record from mossy fiber boutons and CA3 pyramidal cells at a unitary level.”
Peipeng Lin
PhD Student (since 2020)
Research area
My research focuses on the study of synaptic transmission between mossy fibre and pyramidal neuron in hippocampal CA3, by recording simultaneously from the pre-synaptic bouton and the post-synaptic pyramidal cell.
