PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dimitar obtained a BSc in Physiology from McGill University in Montreal, where he worked on activity-dependent maturation of neuronal firing properties of autonomic neurons. He then went onto to do a PhD with Josh Sanes at Harvard University, where he uncovered the mechanisms and function of dendritic self-avoidance in mammalian neurons. Following his graduate studies, Dimitar was a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Häusser’s lab at UCL, where he identified reward-related instructive signals conveyed to the cerebellum via climbing fibers.

Dimitar joined the CDN at King’s as a Wellcome Trust Fellow in 2023.

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RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Ren received a BSc in Medical Sciences from the University of Brighton, before moving on to obtain her MSc in Biomedical & Molecular Sciences Research from King’s College London, where she studied the distribution of GABAergic synapses in the olfactory bulb in Matt Grubb’s lab. She is interested in investigating the dynamics of network connectivity, specifically within the context of behaviour.

Ren became the first member of the lab in 2023, helping with the conceptualization and development of the lab’s experimental set-ups.

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LIDo PhD ROTATION STUDENT

Carolina graduated in 2021 from Queen Mary University of London in Biochemistry and then underwent a Masters by Research at the University of Edinburgh in Integrative Neuroscience where she carried out patch-clamping and optogenetic manipulations of MEC cells. Her research interests encompass the neural and behavioural basis of predictive-coding and decision-making.

Carolina is a science communicator and hosts a neuroscience podcast, Neuroverse, to engage audiences in science and philosophy.

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MRC-ITND PhD ROTATION STUDENT

Subham received his BSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on single-cell RNA-sequencing of direct pericyte-to-neuron reprogrammable cells in Benedikt Berninger’s lab. He then received an MRes in Brain Sciences at UCL, where he conducted a protocol-building project on thick-tissue multiplexed in-situ hybridization in Yoh Isogai’s lab at SWC. His research interest is driven by a desire to decode brain activity to develop seamless brain-computer interfaces that enhance human-machine integration.

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PhD STUDENT Collaborator (at UCL)

Maxime is a PhD student in Michael Häusser’s lab at UCL. He and Dimitar have worked closely together for several years studying cerebellar coding during goal-directed behaviour. In his PhD work, Maxime has pioneered the use of Neuropixels probes in cerebellar neurophysiology research and developed tools to analyze and interpret these recordings.

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