Juan Felipe Vargas Fique

EDUCATION

College / University

Universidad de los Andes

Highest Degree

Bachelor of Science

Major Subjects

Biology

Country

Colombia

Lab Experience

Behavioral experiments, Insect neurophysiology and behavior, basic training in extracellular recordings and whole cell recording

Projects / Research

2015: Research assistant: worked contributing to the design of an experimental procedure intended to measure chemoreceptive behavioral responses of Drosophila melanogaster using an olfactometer, Universidad de los Andes
2015: Behavioral experiments with an artificial magnetic field and search for magnetic material in Drosophila melanogaster. Bachelor thesis, Dept. of Biology, Universidad de los Andes (Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Jorge Molina)

Scholarships / Awards

2016 – 2017:	Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School
2010 – 2015:	'Quiero Estudiar' Scholarship, Universidad de los Andes

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I am interested in the diversity and complexity of sensory modalities. I would like to increase our understanding of the transduction mechanisms and the processing responsible for the uptake of relevant information from the environment. I am also interested in understanding the diversity and flexibility of synaptic conncections and how they may contribute differently to specific functionalities of the brain.