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© Uwe Maskos
Tranche d'hippocampe de souris colorée avec deux toxines spécifiques de sous-types de récepteur nicotinique, en rouge (grains), et en vert (corps cellulaires). L'hippocampe est la zone du cerveau qui gère la mémoire spatiale.
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The role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in Alzheimer’s disease.

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Education

2013-2017 PhD in Neuroscience, University of Bristol
            Thesis: Nicotinic receptor regulation of glutamatergic transmission essential for recognition memory
            Supervisors: Prof E.C Warburton, Prof Z.I Bashir, & Prof S. Wonnacott

2010-2013 BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience, University of Bristol
           Dissertation: “An investigation into plasticity in Area TE”
           Units: Synaptic plasticity, Molecular Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatric diseases

Research Techniques

▪ In vitro electrophysiology: Whole-cell voltage clamp, current-clamp, and optogenetics
▪ Behavioural testing: Spontaneous recognition memory in rodents
▪ Stereotaxic surgery: Chronic cannulation, viral transfection, and lesion
▪ Histology: Transcardial perfusion, cryostat, light and fluorescence microscopy

Awards

2017 Tocris award for final year PhD presentation
2016 School of physiology, pharmacology and neuroscience poster presentation award
2012 Pfizer prize

Publications & Poster Presentations

Sabec M.H, Wonnacott S, Warburton E.C & Bashir Z.I. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors control encoding and retrieval of associative recognition memory through plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex. Submitted

Sabec M, et al. The opposing influences of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes in the medial prefrontal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego USA, 2016.

Sabec M, et al. α7 and α4β2 nicotinic receptors in the prefrontal cortex control different aspects of associative recognition memory in rats. British Neuroscience Association, Edinburgh UK, 2015.

Sabec M, et al. Nicotinic receptors exert bidirectional modulation of of hippocampal-medial PFC synaptic plasticity. European Synapse Meeting, Bristol UK, 2015