I’m a PhD student in Tiago Branco’s lab at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, UCL. I’m on the Experimental and Theoretical Systems Neuroscience PhD program. My research focusses on how the brain implements the cognitive processes guiding defensive behaviours – namely, navigation and decision making.

I previously studied an MSci in Neuroscience at UCL. I spent two summers in the USA on the Janelia Research Campus undergraduate scholars program investigating hippocampal circuitry. I’ve also undertaken a summer internships at UCL investigating how synapses are effected in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models.

My CV is available here.

Publications

Marques-Smith A, Neto JP, Lopes G, Nogueira J, Calcaterra L, Frazão J, Kim D, Phillips MG, Dimitriadis G, Kampff A. Recording from the same neuron with high-density CMOS probes and patch-clamp: a ground-truth dataset and an experiment in collaboration. bioRxiv. 370080, 2018.

Cembrowski MS, Phillips MG, DiLisio S, Shields BC, Winnubst J, Chandrashekar J, Bas E, Spruston N. Dissociable Structural and Functional Hippocampal Outputs via Distinct Subiculum Cell Classes. Cell. 173:1280–1292, 2018.

Hughes E, Leibo JZ, Phillips MG, Tuyls K, Duéñez-Guzmán EA, Castañeda AG, Dunning I, Zhu T, McKee KR, Koster R, Roff H, Graepel T. Inequity aversion resolves intertemporal social dilemmas. arXiv. 1803.08884, 2018.

Phillips MG, Geerts JP, Lenzi SC. Cortical Predictive Mechanisms of Auditory Response Attenuation to Self-Generated Sounds. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(22): 5393–5394, 2017.

Previous Work

Aug 2017 – Nov 2017 | Botvinick Lab, DeepMind AI. Internship

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016. | Spruston Lab, Janelia Research Campus. Undergraduate Research Scholar

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 | Spruston Lab, Janelia Research Campus. Undergraduate Research Scholar

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 | Edwards Lab, UCL. Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship

Sep 2012 – Jun 2016 | MSci Neuroscience, UCL. First Class Honors