Joe Moore

I am investigating how the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex contribute to memory, and how they may be affected in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Mr Joe Moore

PhD Student - Wood Lab

• 1 George Square
• Edinburgh
• EH8 9XD

Contact details

• Email: Joe.moore@ed.ac.uk
• Web: Wood Research Group

Personal Profile

• 2014-2017: Neuroscience BSc (Hons), University of Bristol
• 2017-present: EASTBIO DTP Student

Research

Using sensory information about the world around us, we form maps of our spatial environment in order to navigate and remember contexts and locations. I am investigating how the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex contribute to this process, and how they may be affected in neurodevelopmental disorders. I am studying this in mice and rats, and also in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome, the most common form of inherited learning disability, using in vivo electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, while the animals perform various behavioural tasks.