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