ENCODS 2023 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Cassandra Deichsel

1st year PhD Student in the HaPpY Marie Curie ITN studying the neural circuitry influencing the comorbidity of chronic pain and affective disorders using murine models

University of Cadiz, Spain

Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Tabitha Broadbelt

4th year PhD student in Dr Wang’s lab investigating learning and memory modulation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Morgane Leroux

4th year PhD student in Dr Paz’s lab (Gladstone Institutes) and Pr. Delord’s lab (ISIR), investigating and characterising neurons in the prefrontal cortex responsible for working memory in rodent models

ISIR, Sorbonne University, France

Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco, USA

Elizabeth Williams

3rd year PhD Student in Dr Wang’s lab researching hippocampal circuits in learning and memory as well as looking at a model of amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Prune Mazer

PhD student and resident researcher investigating  neurophysiological approaches to study Predictive Processing in Autism and Schizophrenia

Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Portugal

Geoffroy Delamare

2nd year PhD Student interested in modelling memory circuits using a computational approach

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Kathleen Jacquerie 

5th year PhD student in Guillaume Drion’s lab, modelling sleep-dependent memory consolidation

University of Liege, Belgium

Marianna Kapsetaki

Medical doctor and honorary postdoc at UCL researching memorability in Prof Zeki’s lab

University College London, United Kingdom

Petra Mocellin

5th year PhD Student in the Remy group researching the contribution of an excitatory basal forebrain to midbrain pathway in rodents’ locomotion and exploration

Liebniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, Germany

Jana Sleeboom 

Master Student in a Computational Neuroscience group looking at the simple neural system of leeches

University of Oldenburg, Germany

LOCAL SUPPORT

Rafael Costa 

1st year PhD student working in the Molecular Neuroscience and Gene Therapy lab, led by Dr. Clévio Nóbrega and interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

Algarve Biomedical Center – Research Institute, University of Algarve, Portugal

University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany

Tiago Gomes

1st year PhD student in the Biomedical Sciences doctoral program focusing on targeting a transcriptional dysregulation in Machado-Joseph disease and the underlying mechanisms

Algarve Biomedical Center – Research Institute, University of Algarve, Portugal

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Inês Afonso 

1st year PhD student interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying Machado-Joseph disease, also known as Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3

Algarve Biomedical Center – Research Institute, University of Algarve, Portugal

Interdisciplinary Center for neurosciences, University of Heidelberg, Germany