Juliane Jaepel
Dr. Juliane Jaepel is
a Postdoc in the lab of David Fitzpatrick where she studies the functional
architecture of the visual system in ferrets.
Bio
Dr. Juliane Jaepel joined the institute as a
Postdoc in April 2018. Aside from the main (primary) visual cortex, animals and
humans have many other visual areas, yet it remains unclear how they
communicate with or influence each other. Using advanced analytical techniques,
and cutting-edge microscopy, her research focuses on understanding how neuronal
response properties in the primary visual cortex are dependent on signals from these
visual areas.
Prior to joining the Fitzpatrick lab, Dr.
Jaepel earned her Ph.D. in Biology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
working with Dr. Tobias Bonhoeffer and Dr. Mark Huebener at the Max Planck
Institute of Neurobiology. In her dissertation she could show that the visual
thalamus appears to play a substantial more active role in the context of
adapting to long-lasting changes in visual input than previously assumed.
Education
- Ph.D., Ludwig Maximilian
University Munich & Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Biology
- MSc., Julius Maximilians University
of Wuerzburg, Biomedicine
- BSc.,
Julius Maximilians University of Wuerzburg, Biomedicine