Deren Aykan
Senior Research Techncian
Deren is a senior research technician working with Dr Shohei Furutachi in the Hofer Lab at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), where she investigated the behavioural outcomes of ketamine in Dr Gunes Unal’s lab.
During her postbaccalaureate research, she worked in Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki’s and Dr. Tanya Sippy’s labs at NYU Langone Health (NY, USA) to develop a deep understanding of neural circuits and behaviour.
In the Hofer Lab she is exploring the propagation of prediction error signals.