As a PhD student at Boston University, she examined the electrophysiological properties of single neurons in regions of the brain associated with spatial memory and navigation. For her postdoctoral studies, she relocated to Norway and discovered a molecular mechanism for the scale at which grid cells represent the external spatial environment. As a new faculty member at Stanford University, her group aims to determine the molecular and cellular substrates underlying the organization in grid cell properties. She combines electrophysiology, genetic approaches, behavioral paradigms and computational modeling to unravel mechanisms underlying spatial memory and navigation. Her lab hopes that in the long term, their research will provide key insights into diseases that target memory processing, such as Alzheimer’s disease and depression. Page generated 2013-09-19 06:08:14 PDT, by jemdoc.