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2016-2018

André Bockes

City and country of origin:
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Educational Background:

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Main scientific interests:

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Future plans and objectives:

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Vanessa Granja Burbano

City and Country of origin:
Quito, Ecuador

Educational background:

• B.Sc. in Biology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.
  Bachelor thesis:  “Comparative evaluation of commercially available antipsychotics drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia using open field test and prepulse inhibition in a murine model”

Main scientific interests

• Regenerative Medicine
  Stem Cells Culture focus on Neuroscience
  Neurodegenerative and Neuropsychiatric disorders

Future Plans and objectives

• PhD in Neuroscience
• Research in Regenerative Medicine

Franziska Mauter

City and country of origin:
Kösching, Germany

Educational background:

• B.Sc. Physics at the University of Regensburg
  Bachelor thesis: Spinrelaxation in three-dimensional topological insulators

Main scientific interests:

• Data processing and signalling in the brain
  Mechanisms of memory formation

   

Future plans and objectives:

• Making a Ph.D. thesis in the field of neurosciences
  Persuing research in this field to improve knowledge about the functionalities of the brain and the cause of neurodegenerative diseases

Patricia Pombo

City and country of origin:
Madrid, Spain

Educational background:

• BSc. in Biology, “Universidad Autónoma de Madrid”. Bachelor Thesis: “Analysis of density and spatial 3D arrangement of microglial cells in the somatosensory cortex of juvenile rat”

Main scientific interests:

• Neurobiological and psychological mechanisms underlying emotions, behavior and social processes (emotion regulation, social variables that contribute to an altered affective or neurocognitive processing).
• Neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.
• Neuropsychology and social neurosciences.

   

Future plans and objectives:

• Develop into a freethinking scientist in a field that I am so driven in.
• Pursue a PhD in the field of my scientific interest.

Sabina Rautu

City and country of origin:
Iasi, Romania

Educational background:

• B.Sc. in Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

• Bachelor thesis: “The influence of Anthriscus nemorosa oil on the spatial memory of an animal model of dementia”

  
  

Main scientific interests:

• Cognitive, behavioral and clinical neuroscience (and everything in between)

• Higher brain functions

• Brain lateralization

  
  
  

Future plans and objectives

• Although my current goal is to immerse myself in studying and exploring different areas of neuroscience (with the great help of the ECN programme), in the future I would like to receive a PhD so that later on I would be able to scientifically contribute somehow to unravelling some of the mysteries of the brain.

André Rodrigues da Silva

City and country of origin:
Lisbon, Portugal

Educational background:

• B.Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
• Bachelor thesis: Biochemical regulation through compartmentalization of metabolic pathways.
  

Main scientific interest:

• Nutrition.
• Relationship between nutrition and the brain.
• Operant conditioning.
• Consciousness.
• Emotion.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Human "interface" with the world.
• Biotechnology.
• Enzyme regulation.
• Neuroscience of disease.
  
  

• Start a business.

Anneka Rzepus

City and country of origin:
Dresden, Deutschland

Educational background:

• B.Sc. Sensors and cognitive psychology
• Bachelor-thesis: „Neurophysiological and metabolical examination of the Ego-depletion effect.“ Technische Universität Chemnitz

Main scientific interest:

• neuroimaging/fMRI
• neurodegenerative diseases
• neuropsychology
• clinical neurosciene

• PhD in neuroscience to become a high-qualifed scientist

Ralf Schmidtner

City and country of origin:
Bamberg, Deutschland

Educational background:

• B.Sc. in Biology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
  

Main scientific interests:

• Histological & connective structure of the hippocampus in rodents & humans
• Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe Memory System in memory and learning

Future plans and objectives:

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Career in clinical research and/or industry

   

Philipp Seidel

City and country of origin:
Kühbach, Germany

Educational background:

• Bachelor of Science. in medical Informatics from Ostbayerisch Technische Hochschule Regensburg (OTH)
• Bachelor’s Thesis: Parallelizing multivariate analyses with Nvidia Graphics Processing Units

   

Main scientific interests

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Pain, mostly interested in Migraine
• Computational Neuroscience

Future plans and objectives

• learning as much as I can about different fields in Neuroscience and finishing my ECN master’s degree
• Pursuing a PhD in one of my current or future fields of interest after the ECN.

  
  

Jay John Wilson

City and country of origin:
Arcata, United States

Educational background:

• Bachelor of Science in Cellular Molecular Biology, Humboldt State University

Main scientific interests:

• Neuropsychiatric disorders and diseases
• Pharmacology of psychotropic substances
• Neural plasticity, neurogenesis

   

• Pursue a PhD in Neuroscience

Gagik Yeghiazaryan

City and country of origin:
Yerevan, Armenia

Educational background:

• Diploma Specialist in field of Medical Biochemistry. Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University.
  

Main scientific interests:

• Drug and Behavioral Addictions;
• Psychiatric diseases;
• Neurological disorders;
• Mechanisms of Perception, Disorders of Perception;
• Neural Plasticity;
• Neurolinguistics;
• Cognition.
  

   

Futur plans and objectives

• PhD in Neuroscience.

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