Lab of Rebecca Jordan at the University of Edinburgh
Curriculum Vitae - Rebecca Jordan
Academic positions
2023 until present
Simons ESAT Fellow and Principal Investigator
Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, UK.
2018 - 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland. Supervisor: Georg Keller.
2018 - 2018
Postdoctoral fellow
The Francis Crick Institute, UK. Supervisor: Andreas Schaefer.
Education
March 2018
Doctor of Philosophy in neuroscience
The Francis Crick Institute, UK.
Conferred by University College London. Supervisor: Andreas Schaefer.
Thesis title: 'Context dependent processing in the mouse olfactory bulb.'
June 2013
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Natural Sciences
University of Cambridge, UK
Degree class: first
Funding and fellowships
June 2021: Simons Foundation Global Brain Bridge to Independence Award.
Proposal: ‘Cortical-catecholamine loops in sensorimotor learning’
June 2019: Human Frontiers Science Program long term postdoctoral fellowship
Proposal: 'Mechanistic investigation into the driving forces of sensorimotor learning in the visual cortex'.
August 2014: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship
Proposal: 'Context dependent processing in the mouse olfactory bulb'
Awards
Max Burger Prize for outstanding postdoctoral paper - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 2021.
Senior College Scholarship - St. Catharine’s college, University of Cambridge, 2013.
Robert Comline Prize in Systems Physiology - St. Catharine’s college, University of Cambridge, 2013.
Belfield Clark Prize in Biological Sciences - St. Catharine’s college, University of Cambridge, 2013.
Invited talks and seminars
‘Predictive visuomotor plasticity in mouse primary visual cortex’. Invited talk, Cosyne Workshops. Cascais, Portugal, 2024.
‘Rising alternatives in peer review’. Invited talk, Neuro OpenScience Workshop. Paris Brain Institute Paris, 2023.
‘Neuromodulatory prediction error broadcasting for learning rate control’. Invited seminar, The Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2023.
‘The locus coeruleus broadcasts prediction errors for learning rate control’. Invited online seminar, ‘Blue Spot’ seminars, 2023.
‘Learning to suppress self-generated sensory input in the primary visual cortex’. Invited talk, Cosyne workshops, 2023. Fairmont hotel, Mont Tremblant, Canada.
‘Computation and broadcasting of prediction errors in the cortex’. Rank Prize Symposium on Neural Processing of Visual Information and Behavioural Context, 2022. The Wordsworth Hotel, Grasmere, UK.
‘Neuromodulatory broadcasting of prediction errors drives cortical learning’. Simons Initiative on the Developing Brain Annual Research Retreat, 2022. Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, UK.
‘Neuromodulatory broadcasting of prediction errors in the cortex’. 8th European Visual Cortex Meeting, 2022. Kloster Seeon, Seeon, Germany.
‘Opposing influence of top-down and bottom-up input on excitatory neurons in mouse primary visual cortex’. Available at JRNLclub.org, 2021
‘Layer specific visuomotor integration in primary visual cortex’, Invited seminar, 2020, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London, UK.
‘Layer specific visuomotor integration in primary visual cortex’, Invited seminar, 2020, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘Adaptive active sampling behaviour underlies contextual modulation of the olfactory bulb’. Invited seminar, 2017, Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
‘Adaptive active sampling behaviour underlies contextual modulation of the olfactory bulb’. ECRO conference, 2017, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK.