Plexon Research Spotlight: Cecilia Bouaichi

Newsletter from August 21, 2020, announcing our latest Research Spotlight, Cecilia Bouaichi and highlighting one of her recent publications in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Plexon Research Spotlight

Our goal with Plexon Research Spotlight is to support neuroscience research and share how Plexon has been able to help address investigators’ specific research questions. You can submit your own research or view our current spotlights below.

Cecilia Bouaichi

“Our lab primarily focuses on how taste information is encoded in multiple brain regions and how this information is used to drive our eating behaviors. We are interested in understanding how cortical and thalamic areas in mice encode sensory information and determining how the temperature of taste solutions is able to modulate taste processing in the gustatory cortex and taste-related behavior. “

Learn more about Cecilia

Plexon Products Used

– OmniPlex

– MAP

– Offline Sorter

“Cortical processing of chemosensory and hedonic features of taste in active licking mice”

Highlights from Cecilia’s recent publication in the Journal of Neurophysiology

During active licking, gustatory cortex neurons encode both the chemosensory and hedonic aspects of gustatory stimuli
This encoding happens rapidly. Neurons in the gustatory gortex encode information about taste qualities in as little as 120 ms.

Bouaichi & Vincis, 2020