Welcome to the Barry Lab! Below you can find a brief introduction of all lab members and their contact details – feel free to get in touch over email or twitter! Scroll down to see pictures from our out-of-lab adventures. Overall lab contact details can be found here.
Professor Caswell Barry Principal Investigator Ex-electrophysiologist, discovering the computations embedded in the brain (and answering emails).
Dr William De Cothi Postdoc Background in Mathematics. Interested in using machine learning and computational modelling to help understand the brain and behaviour.
Dr. Sarah Shipley Postdoc Electrophysiologist, interested in hippocampal replay and how it is affected in Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr Thomas Jahans-Price Postdoc My current research involves conducting electrophysiological recordings from high density probes chronically implanted in freely moving mice. I’m interested in the neuronal computations underlying spatial exploration and navigation.
Dr Michael Bukwich Postdoc Experimentalist at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, joint supervised by Neil Burgess. For my postdoc, I am studying the brain. More specifically, I am interested in how it works.
Dr William De Cothi Postdoc Background in Mathematics. Interested in using machine learning and computational modelling to help understand the brain and behaviour.
Zuzanna Słonina PhD Student Training mice and RL agents to navigate through virtual space to gain understanding of how visual and spatial is integrated and used in hippocampus and visual cortex. Using VR and Neuropixel probes.
Clementine Domine PhD Student I am particularly interested in studying the computational neural theories at the basis of learning and memory consolidation in neuronal networks.
Tom George PhD Student Ex-physicist, turned neuroscientist. I build models of hippocampus and entorhinal cortex to study representation learning and the curious role of oscillations.
Lauren Bennett PhD Student Working across neuroscience and machine learning, my research aims to elucidate how we develop an understanding of space and dimensionality. Using both neural data and VR simulations, I aim to establish a computational framework that explains the patterns and idiosyncrasies of our spatial and social processing.
Marco P. Abrate PhD student Researching artificial neural networks to model spatial neurons. Exploiting these models to explain the maturation of such neurons, e.g. the relative order in which they develop and their relationship to the emergence of navigation. Working in collaboration with Prof. Thomas Wills.
Daniel Liu PhD student Approximating neural circuits with deep learning. Also interested in probabilistic and Bayesian approaches to studying neuroscience.
Joshua Hau PhD Student Ex-electrophysiologist. Interested in using reinforcement learning models to better understand representation learning and goal-directed behaviour.
Masahiro Nakano PhD student PhD student at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, joint supervised by Claudia Clopath. I am interested in how Hippocampus encodes and retrieves memory.
