Aoife Houghton Stevens#
Aoife Houghton Stevens
Research Technician
After completing my BSc in Biochemistry at Bristol University, I pursued an MSc researching ‘Sex Differences in Fear Extinction and its Associated Neural Circuitry in Rats’. This project was an introduction to neuroscience and initiated my passion in understanding learning and memory processes.
Research:#
Cholinergic modulation of OLM-interneurones in the mouse CA1:
Whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology
Dual optogenetics
Supervision of undergraduate research project -> neuromodulation of OLM interneurones in the mouse CA1:
Whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology
Bath application of neuromodulators
Current projects:#
Outside of the lab
Reading fantasy novels
Learning languages
Kick boxing