For our second research evening with NeuroSoc, we bring you talks from Dr Adam Kampff as well as PhD student and ex-NeuroSoc president Matthew Philips! Dr Kampff will be speaking to us about recording neural activity in augmented reality, using next-generation silicon probes, and Matthew will be presenting his final year project from Professor Hausser's lab, where he applied deep-brain calcium imaging to investigate multisensory integration in the claustrum. 

Adam Kampff studies intelligent systems at the new Sainsbury Wellcome Centre here at UCL. His group has been developing ambitious behavioural assays to "recreate challenges that nervous systems have specifically evolved to deal with", in order to see just what that cortex is good for. Pairing this with experimental methods for simultaneously recording spikes from up to a thousand neurones, the Kampff group is looking to find some of the general principles behind how the brain comes to represent an animal's environment. 

Matthew Philips is an alumnus of the UCL MSci Neuroscience degree, and current PhD candidate at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Recently graduated, and twice an Undergraduate Scholar at the prestigious HHMI, Janelia Farm Campus, Matthew was also honored by the UCL Neuroscience Society as our first 'Neuro of UCL'.