Daniela Schwindel Email & Phone Number

Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Autobiographic memory is essential to personal identity and is tightly coupled to spatial memory. Both processes are supported by a structure called the hippocampal formation. Damage to this area can cause severe memory deficits, as it is the case in Alzheimer’s patients. Especially the ability to retrieve and dissociate similar memories experienced in the.

Leuven, Belgium

As a visiting research scholar I had the opportunity to work closely with Dr. Bruce McNaughton, Dr. Fabian Kloosterman and Dr. Arno Aarts on developing and testing a new microdrive loaded with flexible silicon probes (provided by ATLAS Neuroengineering) to increase the numbers of neurons that can be recorded from simultaneously significantly.

As a research assistant in Dr. Stefan Leutgeb’s laboratory I investigated how the hippocampus separates similar memories experienced in distinct spatial locations. I assembled the implanted recording devices (‘hyperdrives’, with 12 independently movable recording tetrodes), conducted the behavioural testing and single-unit recordings, histological.

Thesis title: "Hippocampal population coding to distinguish separate spatial memories"In Drs. May-Britt and Edvard Mosers' (Nobel prize in Medicine or Physiology, 2014) laboratory I investigated how the hippocampus in rodents distinguishes between similar memories acquired at different locations. Under Dr. Stefan Leutgeb's supervision I learned how to.

Master'S Degree, Neurobiology, Diploma, Graduation With Distinction

Education record

Intermediate Diploma, Biology, General