Emel Souiki
PhD candidate veterinary medicine (supervised by Dr. Meye)

I'm interested in the impact of early-life opportunities such as play on rats' cognitive control and stress resilience, focusing on risk-taking during play. Specifically, I explore how the medial prefrontal cortex and its projections to the nucleus accumbens shape decision making in conflict situations and resilience against the unexpected. This project is a collaboration with Dr. Heidi Lesscher.
Behavioral paradigms, fiber photometry, ML models for automatisation of tracking and annotation, Python, MATLAB