Margarida Pinto
46 Rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris FR • anamargaridampinto@gmail.com
PhD student at École Normale Supérieure. Interviewer for Stories of Women in Neuroscience. Interested in movement, orientation, learning and locomotion.
Experience
PhD student
École Normale Supérieure • June, 2022 — Present
Neurophysiology of Brain Circuits lab
Thesis title - Interrogating vestibulo-cerebellar circuits involved in spatial orientation. Supervised by Dr. Guillaume Dugué.
Research Assistant
Champalimaud Foundation • April, 2021 — May, 2022
Neural Circuits Dysfunction lab
Providing research support to different projects related with action and learning in mice. Main duties included building and optimizing novel behavioural setups, running behavioural experiments and performing surgeries. Supervised by Dr. Joaquim Alves da Silva.
MSc student
Champalimaud Foundation • Sept., 2019 — April, 2021
Neurobiology of Action lab ( now at Columbia University)
Thesis title - Striatal plasticity upon learning of a lateralized motor task. I combined behavioral studies and microscopy to investigate the changes in striatal plasticity upon learning of a lever pressing task in mice. Supervised by Dr. Rui M. Costa and Dr. Daniela Pereira.
Social Links
- Github: https://github.com/anamargaridampinto
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/margarida_m_p
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarida-pinto-635240204/