We are pleased to welcome Dr. Teris Tam to the Unit as a Postdoctoral Neuroscientist in the Magill Group.

Teris originally graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Phil. in Biomedical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he helped develop a brain-computer interface to control a hand exoskeleton for stroke rehabilitation. Teris completed his Ph.D. in Neural Engineering at the National University of Singapore in 2018. As one element of his Ph.D. research, Teris investigated real-time neural signal processing and decoding from human peripheral nerves as part of a larger project on neuroprosthetics. Teris then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied the neuronal basis of spatial memory in the medial entorhinal cortex.

Here in the Unit, Teris will be working as part of a Collaborative Research Network supported by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s. Teris will be using photometry, electrophysiology, optogenetics and behavioural analyses to elucidate the signalling dynamics of dopamine and other neuromodulators in the striatum in health and experimental Parkinsonism.