This research lab is focused on understanding how the brain encodes memories. To this end, we study memory formation and recall in mice while imaging the activity of individual neurons using genetically-encoded activity markers. This is a powerful approach that allows us to “see” a memory being made in a behaving mouse. We image the activity of thousands of neurons using our in-house build miniature microscopes. Once the data has been collected, we use advanced math and statistics to analyze the activity patterns of neurons to extract general principles about memory. The summer student will be involved in all aspects of this project. The student will help collect the imaging data and then, with the mentoring of senior graduate students and postdocs in the lab, help analyze this interesting dataset using a variety of different techniques.