Dr James Ainge

Biography

He did his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of St Andrews and then stayed to take up a BBSRC case studentship to study for his PhD in Professor Philip Winn’s lab. He moved to Edinburgh in 2001 to work in Dr Emma Wood’s lab as a postdoctoral research fellow and this is where he learnt in vivo electrophysiology and where he started researching memory and the hippocampus. he did further postdoctoral research at the University of Stirling with Dr Paul Dudckenko and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim with Professors Edvard and May-Britt Moser. In 2008 he returned to St Andrews to take up a lectureship and now have an established lab examining the neural basis of spatial and episodic memory.

Research Interest

examining learning and memory in rodents with a view to furthering our understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory. Ultimately this research will shed light on human memory processes both in normal people and patients suffering from memory disorders including those with Alzheimer’s disease.