29 Apr 2013
Claire graduated from the University of Bristol, UK with a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience in 2006. As part of her undergraduate degree she spent a year working in Singapore at GSK's Centre for Research in Cognitive and Neurodegenerative Disorders developing preclinical models to evaluate cognitive enhancing compounds. Her interest in learning and memory continued into her PhD where she studied neurone ensembles during behaviour at the MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity.
Under the supervision of Juan Mena-Segovia, and in collaboration with Todor Gerdjikov, Claire joins the basal ganglia group to study the cholinergic modulation of the basal ganglia during reward using optogenetics.