Michelle Sanchez Rivera

Michelle Sanchez Rivera's biography and research focus.

Contact type
Person
First name
Michelle
Surname
Sanchez Rivera
Title
Miss
Role
PhD Student - Duguid Lab
Organisation 1
Hugh Robson Building
Organisation 2
15 George Square
Organisation 3
Edinburgh, EH8 9XD
Email
M.Sanchez-Rivera@sms.ed.ac.uk

Personal Profile

I have an undergraduate degree in Biology from UNAM, Mexico (2009-2013). To complement my studies, I attended numerous courses from the Mathematics programme and participated in courses and conferences hosted by the UNAM Mathematical Biology Group.

I obtained an MSc by Research in Integrative Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh (2016-2017). 

Research

My research focusses on how corticospinal neurons in the motor cortex encode different aspects of controlled movement such as initiation and suppression.

I use two-photon calcium imaging to record dendritic activity in awake behaving mice in order to study the computations carried out in dendrites that transform sensorimotor and modulatory inputs into behaviourally relevant activity.