Meet the Team
We are a diverse group of biologists, psychologists, mathematicians, which code, record neuronal activity, look carefully at behavior and create theorethical models.
Lab members


Ana Rita Mendes, MSc
2017 INDP PhD student
Neuronal circuits, sexual and micturition behaviour, spinal cord anatomy and function









Luís Moreira, MSc
2011 INDP PhD student
Female social behaviour and sexual receptivity, dopamine, optogenetics

Margarida A. Duarte, PhD
Lab manager & Research assistant
Social and sexual behaviour, evolutionary biology, mice colony management, lab management



Silvana Araújo, MPhil
2011 INDP PhD student
Male sexual behaviour, dopaminergic system, optogenetics

Allumni

Alexandre Varela
Research technician
Genotyping

Diogo Matias, MSc
Research technician
Image analysis, microscopy, science communication, science illustration

Gonçalo André
MSc student
Sexual behaviour

Inês Preguiça
MSc student
Female sexual behaviour

Inês Vieira
MSc student
Sexual behaviour

Kensaku Nomoto, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
Behaviour, electrophysiology, analysis
Currently at Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan

Léa Zinck, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
Behavior, mate choice, ants, nature

Marta Pinto Costa
Research technician
Histology techniques

Nadja Oellrich, MSc
Research technician
Sexual behaviour