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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Background</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
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<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="background.html">Background</a></li>
<li><a href="research.html">Research Highlights</a></li>
<li><a href="software.html">Software</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact/Links</a></li>
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<h1>Background</h1>
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<h2>About Me</h2>
<img src="img/headshot.JPG" alt="headshot" class="headshot-image">
<p>I believe learning and memory are critical for intelligence and consciousness. Since I first departed for university, this core philosophy has motivated me to dive into neuroscience and, especially, the hippocampus which is a key brain structure in learning and memory. My graduate work versed me in many technical problems around studying the hippocampus in humans, especially with neuroimaging. Now, with the advent of deep learning, I have developed methods for handling hippocampal imaging all the way from 3D MRI to the miscroscopic or histological level. Along the way, the utility of deep learning has been instrumental, but the theory itself also intrigues me as I now examine links between hippocampal and AI learning.</p>
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<h2>Education</h2>
<ul>
<li>PostDoc at McGill University, Montreal</li>
<li>PhD in Neuroscience, Western University, London</li>
<li>MSc in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology, Western University, London</li>
<li>BSc in Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa</li>
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<h2>Research Experience</h2>
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<li>Undergraduate Research Assistant, Carleton University, Ottawa, studying rodent cognition with a focus on memory and navigation</li>
<li>Graduate Research Assistant, Western University, London, working with Dr Stefan Kohler looking at neuroimaging of the hippocampus and behavioural tests of pattern separation in major depressive disorder</li>
<li>PhD Candidate, Western University, London, working with Dr Ali Khan and Dr Stefan Kohler to develop the software application "HippUnfold" designed to work with 7T MRI images in Canada and leverage prior knowledge about hippocampal shape and ontogeny</li>
<li>Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montreal, working with Dr Alan Evans and Dr Boris Bernhardt examining hippocampal microstructure in BigBrain, performing histology-scale technical refinements to HippUnfold, and combining data across MRI, multimodal histology, fMRI, and iEEG</li>
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<p>Copyright © 2023 - Jordan DeKraker</p>
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