Frances Xia, Ph.D.
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2021 Young Investigator Grant
Frances Xia, Ph.D.
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Associate Specialist
University of California, San Francisco
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Frances is a postdoctoral scholar in the lab. She received her B.S. in Pharmacology from the University of British Columbia, prior to completing her Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of Toronto. In her graduate work with Paul Frankland, Frances studied mechanisms underlying memory consolidation using in vivo electrophysiology in mice. In the Kheirbek lab, Frances is applying optical and high-density electrophysiological recording methods to study neural dynamics that drive behavior.
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