Gemma Gothard

Gemma completed her BSc in Neuroscience at the University of Leeds, graduating in 2018. In September 2018 she moved to Oxford for the Wellcome Trust 1+3 programme in Neuroscience. She completed her DPhil in Colin Akerman’s lab using a combination of lineage labelling techniques and in vitro/in vivo electrophysiology to investigate how the functional identity of excitatory cortical neurons varies depending on the progenitor pool from which they are derived. Gemma is now working as a Postdoctoral Neuroscientist with Rafal Bogacz and Colin Akerman, and she is interested in experimentally testing predictive coding models of cortical neurons.