Edgar baumler

Edgar began his journey into the neurosciences at the University of Edinburgh where he completed both his BSc and MRes. During his time in the Morris lab he studied the role of prefrontal ensembles in representing social dominance hierarchies in a novel rat model of Fragile X Syndrome.

Following on from a brief summer internship, Edgar joined the lab as a PhD student in 2019 and is now working on understanding whether the temporal arrangement of hippocampal reactivation sequences plays a causal role in the formation and retrieval of episodic memories. Moreover, he aims to delineate how these sequences are read out by downstream networks by combining all-optical perturbations with simultaneous Neuropixels probe recordings in mice carrying out a virtual reality spatial learning paradigm.

When not agonizing over failed virus co-expression, Edgar tends to spend most of his free time raising his absolute legend of a dog and inofficial lab mascot - Specter (Extended Data. Fig. 1).

Extended Data. Fig. 1. Specter, the dog legend, also known as “Specki”.