Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Ivan Soltesz (Neurosurgery)

“Hippocampal Interneuronal Cell Dynamics in Epileptic Mice"

65 million people are diagnosed with epilepsy around the world at any given time, and about a third of them will not achieve seizure control with existing medications. Understanding the neuronal mechanisms underlying epilepsy will improve therapies for patients by allowing the discovery of more specific drug targets. Eliza will specifically focus on temporal lobe epilepsy, which is the most refractory form of epilepsy, and use a variety of in vivo approaches to investigate the activity dynamics of inhibitory hippocampal interneurons that are well-positioned to control network activity.