Research Assistant, October 2016 – May 2019
Whilst in Cambridge I contributed to tracing neurons and analysing connectivity of the mushroom body. This region of the fly brain is involved in olfactory associative learning and memory. Our subteam in Cambridge collaborated with Scott Waddell’s lab at the University of Oxford. I enjoyed being involved in applying findings from our tracing to their wet lab experiments and working with a lovely, enthusiastic group of fellow researchers.
I am now at the University of Edinburgh undertaking a 4 year Wellcome Trust Translational Neuroscience PhD. The experience within the group helped immensely with this transition from undergraduate to postgraduate, not only was everyone incredibly supportive but it was also a good way to develop skills, such as data analysis and programming in R, and understand what working in academia is like.