We are pleased to welcome Mia Whitefield as a rotation student on a doctoral training programme.

Mia studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge with an MSci in Systems Biology. During her masters she completed a research project investigating how temporal statistical learning is altered in individuals with chronic pain, supervised by Dr Flavia Mancini. Mia is now in her first year of the Interdisciplinary Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). As part of the programme, Mia completed a rotation project investigating compositional learning in artificial neural networks, supervised by Professor Chris Summerfield.

Mia is joining us to participate in her next rotation project, supervised by Dr Helen Barron, and will be studying predictive coding in the hippocampus by analysing calcium imaging data recorded during an inference task.