During my undergraduate degree, I was able to do a "Year in Industry". I opted to do mine within the research setting, and successfully applied to do it with Hanne Løvlie at the university in my hometown: Linköping, Sweden.
Hanne's lab focuses on the causes and consequences of animal personality, and investigate these questions in a myriad of species (during my time in the lab, we had junglefowl, fish, and crickets!).
I worked mainly with the junglefowl chicks, conducting a range of cognitive and behavioural tests and subsequently measuring gene expression levels of relevant monoamines in the brain. We found several significant links between monoaminergic gene expression and behaviour and/or cognition, but also between cognitive enrichment and behaviour.
Hanne's lab focuses on the causes and consequences of animal personality, and investigate these questions in a myriad of species (during my time in the lab, we had junglefowl, fish, and crickets!).
I worked mainly with the junglefowl chicks, conducting a range of cognitive and behavioural tests and subsequently measuring gene expression levels of relevant monoamines in the brain. We found several significant links between monoaminergic gene expression and behaviour and/or cognition, but also between cognitive enrichment and behaviour.
I also continued the collaboration with a Masters student, Kristoffer, to conduct similar research in invertebrates where the monoamine levels could be manipulated.
