We regularly offer research projects to students on the KCL BSc in Neuroscience undergraduate course and the KCL Masters in Biomedical & Molecular Sciences Research. We’re also keen to host talented students from elsewhere, so if your course allows you to travel for an extended research project and you’re interested in what we do, do get in touch!
Our project students to date have been:
Ceren Arslan
February 2023 – August 2023 – KCL MSc Biomedical & Molecular Sciences Research student. ‘Dendritic GABA release and postsynaptic receptor locations in olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons’
Sweety Amratlal
January 2023 – April 2023 – KCL BSc Neuroscience student. ‘Effects of degeneration of olfactory sensory neurons on the axon initial segment of olfactory bulb projection neurons in adult mice’
Antonia Rudel
May 2022 – August 2022 Erasmus+ project student. ‘Development of the AIS in olfactory bulb projection neurons’
Anna Hindley-Skelt
Jan 2022 – April 2022 – KCL BSc Neuroscience student. ‘Development of the AIS in olfactory bulb projection neurons’
Rawan Aly
Jan 2021 – April 2021 – KCL BSc Neuroscience student. ‘Olfactory bulb local excitatory interneurons during naturally occurring regeneration’
Yunyi Liu
February 2021 – August 2021 – KCL MSc Biomedical & Molecular Sciences Research student. ‘Dendritic release sites in subtypes of olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons’
Merve Direktor
April 2020 – August 2020 – KCL MSc Neuroscience student. ‘Maturation of dendritic morphology in adult-born olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons’
Nadine Leighton
Jan 2020 – April 2020 – KCL BSc Neuroscience student. ‘Dendritic release sites of dopaminergic neurons in the olfactory bulb’
Arnav Singh
Jan 2019 – April 2019 – KCL BSc Biomedical Sciences student. ‘Temporal heterogeneity in olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons’
Regina Baranyi
July 2018 – August 2018 – Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship. ‘How does sensory experience influence levels of neurotransmitter producing enzymes in adult-born neurons?’
Elisa Merlini
June 2018 – September 2018 – King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF). ‘Maturation of adult-born olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons’
Paula Rodriguez Villamayor
May 2018 – August 2018 – Erasmus student from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. ‘Effects of 24h naris occlusion on olfactory epithelium’
Vicky Wong
April 2018 – August 2018 – MSc in Neuroscience project student. ‘Plasticity of transmitter-synthesizing enzymes in olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons during sensory neuron regeneration’
Ebrahim Bakhtar
January 2018 – April 2018 – BSc Neuroscience project student. ‘Investigating plasticity in the excitatory circuit of glomerular olfactory bulb processing’
Krishna Kothandapani
April 2017 – August 2017 – MSc in Neuroscience project student. ‘Birthdating dopaminergic neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb’
Rachel Williams
April 2017 – June 2017 – MRes in Developmental Neurobiology rotation project student. ‘Dendritic GABA release in OB DA neurons?’. Now doing her PhD with Martin Meyer here at the CDN.
Monika Moissidis
January 2017 – March 2017 – MRes in Developmental Neurobiology rotation project student. ‘Plasticity in adult-born olfactory bulb dopaminergic neurons’. Now doing her PhD with Oscar Marin here at the CDN.
Catherine (Asha) Cunningham
January 2017 – April 2017 – BSc Neuroscience project student. ‘Structural plasticity in external tufted cells’. Now on a doctoral programme at NIH.
Grace Jones
January 2017 – April 2017 – BSc Neuroscience project student. ‘Plasticity of epigenetic regulators in the olfactory bulb’
Candida Tufo
January 2016 – April 2016 – BSc Neuroscience project student. ‘Activity codes and molecular determinants of plasticity at the axon initial segement’. Now doing her PhD with us!
Barbara Cox
September 2015 – August 2016 – MSc Neuroscience project student. ‘Development of the axon initial segment in zebrafish retinal ganglion cells’
Marwa Elmasri
April 2015 – August 2015 – MSc Neuroscience project student. ‘Molecular determinants of olfactory bulb dopaminergic neuron identity’. Now studying for a PhD in the Penn lab at the University of Sussex.
Christiane Hahn
April 2015 – June 2015 – MRes rotation student. ‘Dopaminergic function in olfactory bulb networks’. Now doing her PhD with us!
Marine Breton
February 2015 – May 2015 – MSc student from ENS Lyon. ‘Olfactory enrichment and dopaminergic neurons’
Andrew Bard
January 2015 – April 2015 – MRes Rotation student. ‘Short-term ion channel modulation due to depolarisation of hippocampal neurons’. Now studying for a PhD with Andrew Lowe in the Department of Developmental Neurobiology, KCL.
Darren Byrne
October 2014 – January 2015 – MRes Rotation student. ‘Single cell epigenetics in hippocampal neurons’. Now doing a jointly-supervised PhD with us and Jon Mill + Chloe Wong of the Complex Disease Epigenomics Group at Exeter/IoP.
Samuel Taylor
October 2013 – January 2014 – MRes Rotation student. ‘A tale of two methods: chronic depolarisation of dentate granule cells measured through on-cell and whole-cell recordings’. Now studying for a PhD in the Andreae lab, MRC CDN.
Dennis Kruijssen
June 2013 – December 2013 – MSc Student from Vrije University, Amsterdam. ‘Axon initial segment plasticity: a study on stimulating, signalling and shortening’. Now studying for a PhD at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Shivali Kohli
April 2013 to September 2013 – MSc Neuroscience project student investigating optogenetic activation of calcineurin-dependent transcription factors. Now studying for a PhD at the University of Nottingham.
Thomas Ryan
January 2013 to March 2013 – MRes Rotation student investigating olfactory bulb development and plasticity in mice in vivo. Tom did his PhD with the Meyer lab at the CDN, and is now a post-doc at the University of Sussex.
Rosie Sammons
April 2012 to July 2012 – MRes Rotation student investigating synaptic scaling in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. Successfully defended her PhD with the Keck lab in December 2015, and now doing a post-doc with Dietmar Schmitz at the Charite in Berlin.
Rob Chesters
January 2012 to March 2012 – BSc Neuroscience student investigating AIS plasticity in OB dopaminergic neurons. Now studying for a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL.
Tom Watkins
February 2011 to May 2011 – Intercalating BSc Neuroscience project investigating synapses and plasticity at the AIS.
June 2011 to September 2011 – summer studentship project funded by Dravet Syndrome UK investigating localised action potential initiation under conditions of neuronal plasticity.
Now on the MB-PhD programme at UCL.
Sabrina Lebron
July 2011 to September 2011 – University of California Irvine BSc Biology student investigating AIS plasticity in distinct cell populations in hippocampal cells.
Abdul-Azim Hassan
April 2011 to August 2011 – MSc Neuroscience project student investigating live AIS imaging in zebrafish. Now doing a PhD at the University of Hertfordshire.
Sajeev Shanmuganandarajah
April 2011 to August 2011 – MSc Neuroscience project student investigating the location of action potential initiation at the AIS. Now in medical school at Barts, QMUL.
