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Principal Laboratory Research Scientist

The Francis Crick Institute

Neural circuit for depth perception in the primary visual cortex

• Freely moving electrophysiological recording with head/eye tracking.
• Molecular connectomics using barcoded rabies virus.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Hofer lab - part 2

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre - UCL

Functional organisation of higher-order thalamocortical circuits in the mouse visual system

• Two-photon calcium imaging of axonal projections and acute silicon probe recording in awake mice.
• Head-fixed electrophysiology recording of preparatory activity in the cerebellum.

Postdoctoral fellow in the Hofer lab - part 1

Biozentrum

Functional organisation of higher-order thalamocortical circuits in the mouse visual system

• Slice electrophysiology, CRACM characterisation of thalamic input and of GCaMP6f linearity in cortical interneurons
• Post-hoc immunostaining of cells functionally characterised by two-photon imaging in vivo.

PhD under the supervision of Dr. Boris Barbour

École Normale Supérieure

Functions of cerebellar molecular layer interneurones

Barcoded Rabies In Situ Connectomics for high-throughput reconstruction of neural circuits

Nature Communications

Development of a new method for high-throughput connectomics.

Visual intracortical and transthalamic pathways carry distinct information to cortical areas

Neuron

Anatomical description of the organisation of the transthalamic pathway and characterisation of the functional specificity of its projection to different visual areas.

Ultra-rapid axon-axon ephaptic inhibition of cerebellar Purkinje cells by the pinceau

Nature Neuroscience

Demonstration of direct ephaptic coupling between two neurons in the mammalian brain.