Technical & Scientific skills
Fields of expertise
Hippocampal adult neurogenesis
Spatial & episodic memory in rodents
Memory reactivation
Animal behavior & well-being
Simulated microgravity
Immediate early gene
Animal experimentation
Simulated microgravity via hindlimb suspension
Intraperitoneal injections
Handling
Cohort monitoring (water & food cunsomption, temperature recording)
Blood glucose testing
Surgery
Electrodes implantation
Electrophysiological recording on behaving animals
Intracardiac perfusion
Structure & blood sampling
Training in animal experimentation
Level I Designer
SurgeryÂ
Rodent behavior
Episodic memory task with olfactory, occular and tactile components (EpisodiCage)
Spatial memory: water maze, pattern separation, everyday spatial memory
Touch-Screen
Memory modulating events
Memory reactivation
Cellular Biology
Immunochemistry: simple to triple, fluorescent and DAB
Hybridization in situ (Cellular compartment analysis of temporal activity by fluorescence in situ hybridization)
Proliferation and cellular survival (BrdU)
Immediate early genes (zif268, c-fos, homer1a, arc)
Light & confocal microscopy
Stereology
Tissue preservation
Cryostat
Molecular biology
Dosage
RTqPCR
Computer software
Office: work, powerpoint, excel
Collaborative tools: Slack
Image treatment software: Adobe photoshop, Adobe illustrator, ImageJ (Fiji)
Bibliography administration: Mendeley software, Zotero, PubMed
Images analysis software: Zen Zeiss, Mercator Pro, ImageJ (Fiji)
Animal behavior software: ANY-maze, Volcan, OlfactoBox
Statistics software: Statview, SPSS, GraphPad