Bio:

Tiffany Oña Jodar is originally from Barcelona, Spain, where she studied Biomedical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. To pursue her master’s degree, she moved to Regensburg, Germany, where she worked under the supervision of Veronica Egger. She characterized the dynamics of granule cells in the olfactory bulb using sodium imaging combined with patch-clamp electrophysiology in brain slices. For her doctorate studies, she was awarded a La Caixa Fellowship and conducted her research at the Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab, supervised by Jaime de la Rocha and Albert Compte in Barcelona. During these studies, she developed a behavioral paradigm in mice to characterize short-term memory errors and their corresponding neural profiles. By combining carefully quantified behavior with electrophysiological recordings and modeling, she gained insights into the various behavioral strategies that animals use to solve the task and their distinct dynamics during errors. In her postdoctoral work at the Allen Institute, she aims to explore flexible foraging behavior during an odor navigation task and describe which neural circuits allow mice to optimally harvest their environment.