Report 24/03/2022
The beginning of the project has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic since the lab facilities were not accessible for several months between December 2020 and March 2021.
I took this time to write and publish a review on the topic of the project:
Tom Flossmann, Nathalie Rochefort, Spatial navigation signals in rodent visual cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 67, Pages 163-173, 2021.
This article has so far been cited 10 times in less than a year.
Experimental part:
- Acquisition of the first data set of 2-photon imaging of V1 and ACC activity during goal-directed behaviour
- Establishment of multi-sites probes electrophysiological recordings (Neuropixels) in awake mice during goal-directed behaviour. Learning and developing the analysis pipeline of recorded activity. First data set collected and being analysed
Collaborations:
In parallel to the experimental part, I have pursued a collaboration with computational neuroscientist Dr Arno Onken on the application of statistical methods for the analysis of large datatsets of neuronal activity in awake behaving animals.
This collaboration has resulted in the recent publication of a joint article with contribution from both labs: (members of Rochefort lab in italic):
N. Kudryashova, T. Amvrosiadis, N. Dupuy, N. Rochefort, A. Onken, Parametric Copula-GP model for analyzing multidimensional neuronal and behavioral relationships, Plos Computational Biology, January 28, 2022,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009799(opens in new window)Collaboration with Physicist Dr Tomas Cizmar (fiber endoscopy) is on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our joint article has been cited 126 times since publication (2018).
Public engagements:
Invited speaker at the BioSoc and Girl Up Edinburgh's 'Women in Biology and Medicine’ seminar, March 9, 2022; panel member
Chair of the fundraising event ‘A Statue for Elsie Inglis’; “An Afternoon with Prof Linda Bauld OBE and Kate Murray‐ Browne chaired by Dr Nathalie Rochefort”, March 2022
Invited speaker to ‘Starting and Developing your own lab’ seminar, more than 100 participants (june 2021)