Graduate students interested in a laboratory rotation, please send an e-mail with a CV and a few sentences regarding your research interests to Kyriaki Sidiropoulou (sidirop@uoc.gr)
The student will be introduced to behavioral, electrophysiological, histological and computational techniques for studying the central nervous system.
- Behavioral approaches to study learning and memory: object recognition tests, delayed alternation in the T-maze, contextual fear conditioning
- Electrophysiological approaches: field recordings from mouse brain slice preparation, patch-clamp recordings from mouse brain slice preparation
- Histological approaches: Golgi-Cox staining and analysis of dendritic structure, immunohistochemistry for neurotransmitter receptors or intracellular neuronal proteins
- Computational approaches: Detailed compartmental neuron models to study the role of different cell types in the emergence of persistent activity.