Daniela Schwindel

Experience

• 

  Technische Universität München

  Sept 2003 - Jun 2005

  Grundstudium in Biologie
• 

  Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

  Sept 2005 - Jan 2008

  Hauptstudium in Neurogiolgie
• 

  NTNU, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2008

  Master Student

  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 assemble microdrives, do in vivo electrophysiological recordings, behavioural testing, spike sorting of the recorded data, histology as well as data analysis in matlab. Weniger anzeigen

• 

  UC San Diego

  Apr 2009 - Jun 2009

  Reseach Assistant

  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 preparation of the tissue, as well as the data processing and analysis. I presented my work at Neuroscience seminars at UCSD and at the international Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in Chicago, 2009. Weniger anzeigen

• 

  The University of Lethbridge

  Sept 2009 - Jan 2014

  PhD student

  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 same location can be dramatically impaired. Spatially identical memories are represented by the same neuronal population in the hippocampus. However, different experiences within the same space are encoded as different firing rates within the active population of neurons, a so-called ‘rate code’. It is also known that in slow wave sleep, recently experienced events are being replayed by reactivating the neurons in the same sequential order, as they have been active during the time of the event. In my PhD, I am interested in, whether, during sequence reactivation in the hippocampus, the rate code that allows the separation of similar experiences in the same place, is being preserved. In Dr. Bruce McNaughton’s laboratory, we use large-scale single unit recordings to monitor large populations in the hippocampus simultaneously during both behaviour and sleep. Weniger anzeigen

• 

  Nerf - empowered by imec, KU Leuven and VIB

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2012

  Visiting Research Scholar

  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.

• 

  MultiChannelSystems

  Jun 2015 - now

  Product Consultant Electrophysiology