Neural circuit mechanisms of spatial cognition and memory

• Understanding the role of head direction cells in spatial cognition, and their contribution to the spatial activity of place, grid and boundary cells
• Dissecting the neural circuitry for landmark memory (focusing on specific entorhinal-hippocampal circuits)
• Understanding the contributions of medial and lateral entorhinal cortex to memory, spatial cognition, and to hippocampal codes
• Understanding the neural circuitry that supports episodic memory, and how it changes during postnatal development

Translational Research

• Behavioural and circuit-level characterisation of rat models of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders (e.g. Fragile X Syndrome)
• Prevention/reversal of behavioural and circuit-based deficits in rat models of intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders