Achievement

During the summer of 2010 Douglas Ollerenshaw visited the laboratory of Cornelius Schwarz in Tubingen, Germany in order to learn experimental techniques using IGERT funding. The techniques that Douglas learned allowed his research to proceed much faster, and to ultimately be of better quality than it otherwise would have been. Using the techniques he learned in the Schwarz lab, Douglas presented a poster at the 2011 Society for Neuroscience conference describing the effects of sensory adaptation on the ability of awake, behaving rats to both detect the presence of tactile stimuli, and to spatially discriminate between inputs. He also submitted a paper containing a body of work made possible by that visit to the Journal of Neurophysiology, which was accepted in early April and currently awaits publication. Since his visit, he has maintained contact with members of the Schwarz laboratory, and his visit helped to catalyze a joint project between the two labs that is now funded.