Alex Vourvoukelis

Doctoral student (DPhil) Akerman group University of Oxford Department of Pharmacology Mansfield Rd Oxford, OX1 3QT alexios.vourvoukelis[at]keble.ox.ac.uk

Background

• DPhil in Neuroscience (Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP), University of Oxford, UK (2018-)
• MSc in Neuroscience, University of Oxford, UK (2018-2019)
• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), University of Athens, Greece (2011-2017)

Scientific interests

Neurophysiology

Systems/Circuits Neuroscience

Theoretical Neuroscience

Research

• DPhil project: Inhibitory motifs in the neocortical microcircuit
  Akerman group, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford (Oct 2020 - )
  
  
• 2nd DTP rotation project: Computational implications of local interlaminar cortical feedback signals
  Akerman group, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford (Jul 2020 - Oct 2020)
  
  
• 1st DTP rotation project: Probing the neural correlates of decision uncertainty across frontal cortex
  Lak group, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford (Dec 2019 - Jun 2020)
  
  
• MSc project: Local axonal projections of subpopulations of layer 5 pyramidal neurons
  Akerman group, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford (May 2019 - Aug 2019)
  
  
• MSc project: Delineating the function of short neuropeptide F in the drosophilid mushroom body
  Waddell group, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford (Jan 2019 - Apr 2019)
  
  
• Research placement: Sleep regulation in Drosophila; the role of octopaminergic inputs
  Miesenböck group, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford (May 2016 - Aug 2016)
  
  
• Research placement: Organisation and plasticity of olfactory afferents to the medial amygdala
  Sah group , Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland (Jun 2015 - Sep 2015)
  
  
• Research assistant: Interrelations of PD genes with adjacent lncRNAs
  Stefanis group, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, University Of Athens (Oct 2014 - Jun 2015)
  
  
• Research placement: Molecular mechanisms of salt taste sensation in C. elegans
  Schafer group, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (Jul 2014 - Sep 2014)
  
  

Publications

Elkouris M, Kouroupi G, Vourvoukelis A, Papagiannakis N, Matsas R, Stefanis L, Xilouri M, Politis P, Long Non- Coding RNAs Associated With Neurodegeneration-Linked Genes Are Reduced in Parkinson’s Disease, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (2019)

Interests

Classical music (piano)
Cinema - Theatre
Cooking
Hiking