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Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

• Biological mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders
• Circuit-based neuropathological states classification
• Cross-species comparison models
• Computation psychiatry
• Digital mental health

• 2023 The Kavli Foundation NWB Hackathon Award.
• 2015-2020 Medical Research Council Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, MRC, UK.
• 2019 FENS IBRO Travel Award, FENS, EU.
• 2019 Guarantors of Brain Travel Award, Guarantors of Brain, UK.
• 2019 The Carl Storm Diversity Fellowship, Gordon Research Conference.
• 2019 Medical Research Council Recognition Award for Public engagement, MRC Harwell Institute, UK.
• 2018 The 41st Japanese Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Travel Award, JNS, Japan.
• 2017 Medical Research Council Special Award Scheme Award, MRC Harwell Institute, MRC, UK.
• 2017 Travel Award for the 19th Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting of The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, Madrid, Spain.
• 2016 Training Grant for mouse genetics course, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
• 2014 Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit Travel Award for Inhibitory Control of Brain Plasticity Conference, Poland.
• 2013 Great Britain-China Educational Trust Scholarship, Great Britain-China Educational Trust, UK.

1. Bruijns S. A., International Brain Laboratory, Bougrova K, Laranjeira I.C., Lau P. Y. P., Meijer G. T., Miska N. J., Noel J.-P., Pan- Vazquez A., Roth N., Socha K. Z., Urai A. E., Dayan P., Dissecting the Complexities of Learning With Infinite Hidden Markov Models. Nature Neuroscience, (2023, accepted).
2. Findling C., Hubert F., International Brain Laboratory, Acerbi L., Benson B., Benson J., Birman D., Bonacchi N., Carandini M., Catarino J. A., Chapuis G. A., Churchland A. K., Dan Y., DeWitt E.J., Engel T. A., Fabbri M., Faulkner M., Fiete I. R., Freitas- Silva L., Gerçek B., Harris K. D., Häusser M., Hofer S. B., Hu F., Huntenburg J. M., Khanal A., Krasniak C., Langdon C., Latham P. E., Lau P. Y. P., Mainen Z., Meijer G. T., Miska N. J., Mrsic-Flogel T. D., Noel J.-P., Nylund K., Pan-Vazquez A., Paninski L., Pillow J., Rossant C., Roth N., Schaeffer R., Schartner M., Shi Y., Socha K. Z., Steinmetz N. A., Svoboda K., Tessereau C., Urai A. E., Wells M. J., West S. J., Whiteway M. R., Winter O., Witten I. B., Zador A., Dayan P., Pouget A. Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making. Nature, (2023, accepted).
3. Bafna A., Lau PYP, Banks G., and Nolan PM, Harvesting mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) by vibrating microtome for diurnal transcriptome analysis. STAR Protocol, 2023, accepted. International Brain Laboratory, Banga K., et al. “Reproducibility of in-vivo electrophysiological measurements in mice,” bioRxiv, (2022, doi:10.1101/2022.05.09.491042).
4. Banks G, Guillaumin M, Heise I, Lau P, Yin MH, Bourbia N, Aguilar C, Bowl M, Esapa C, Brown L, Hasan S, Tagliatti E, Nicholson E, Bains RS, Wells S, Vyazovskiy VV, Volynski K, Peirson S. Aberrant synaptic release underlies sleep/wake transition deficits in a mouse Vamp2 mutant. Science Advances, 12 Aug 2020, Vol 6, Issue 33, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb3567.
5. Lamsa K, Lau P. Long-term plasticity of hippocampal interneurons during in vivo memory processes. Curr Opin Neurobiol, 2019 Feb;54:20-27, doi:10.1016/j.conb.2018.08.006.