Chancellor's Fellows
We have recently welcomed several new members of staff who have been appointed under the Chancellor’s Fellowship scheme.
Dr Nathalie Rochefort
Dr Rochefort joined the Centre for Integrative Physiology on 4th January 2013. Her lab is investigating the mechanisms underlying the coordinated activity of neuronal networks in precise spatial and temporal sequences. They are using the first cortical area reached by visual inputs, the primary visual cortex, as a model system of cortical integration.
Nathalie Rochefort's homepage
Dr Dirk Sieger
Dr Sieger joined the Centre for Neuroregeneration on 1st November 2012. His lab is mainly interested in the interactions of residential brain macrophages (microglia) and brain tumours.
Dr Iris Oren
Dr Iris Oren joined the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems on 1st October 2012. Iris is interested in how circuits in the brain's memory regions (particularly, the hippocampus) perform computations, and how these circuits are altered in diseases that affect memory, such as Alzheimer's disease. Iris was also recently awarded a Royal Society Research Grant to fund equipment and consumables for her new electrophysiology laboratory that will study the changes to local network function in Alzheimer's disease.
Several more Chancellor’s Fellows will be coming to the School in 2013. Dr Oliver Hardt will be joining the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems in April and Drs Alastair Garfield and Emanuel Busch will be joining the Centre for Integrative Physiology in the summer.