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Eugenia González Palomares

Ph.D. Student

About me

During my bachelor studies in Biomedical Sciences in the Autonomous University of Barcelona I became very interested in the nervous system and on how we perceive the world around us. After obtaining my bachelor's degree, I continued my studies in the field of Neuroscience by joining the Master of Interdisciplinary Neuroscience in Frankfurt am Main. In my Master thesis I studied auditory processing of natural sounds in the bat inferior colliculus using an information theoretic approach. I chose the AC lab for my Master thesis and I'm currently working towards my PhD in the same lab.

About my project

Bats use multiple sensory cues to guide their behaviour. Yet, to date, most research on bats has focused on echolocation and audition in general, even though bats rely greatly on other senses as well. During my PhD I will study how olfactory cues and respiration rhythms interact with auditory processing in bats. I will investigate the relation between breathing rate and vocalization production. I will also study the connection between neural activity of two brain areas, namely the inferior colliculus (IC), processing hub of auditory stimuli before the information reaches the cortex, and the frontal auditory field (FAF), an understudied area in the bat frontal lobe able to process sounds. In addition, I will use olfactory cues to study how odorants affect the breathing rhythm and neural activity in the bats' brain. Finally, I will use behavioural paradigms in order to assess how auditory and olfactory cues influence decision making in bats.

Publications

López-Jury, L.; García-Rosales, F.; González-Palomares, E.; Wetekam, J.; Hechavarria, J.C., (2022):
A neuron model with unbalanced synaptic weights explains asymmetric effects of ketamine in auditory cortex.
bioRxiv,Article Accepted in PLoS Biology.

García-Rosales, F.; López-Jury, L.; González-Palomares, E.; Wetekam, J.; Cabral-Calderín, Y.; Kiai, A.; Kössl, M.; Hechavarría, J.C., (2022):
Echolocation-related reversal of information flow in a cortical vocalization network.
Nature Communications, 13(1): 1-15.

López-Jury, L.; Garcia-Rosales, F.; González-Palomares, E.;, Kössl, M.; Hechavarria, J. C., (2021):
Acoustic context modulates natural sound discrimination in auditory cortex through frequency specific adaptation.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 41 (50): 10261–10277.

González-Palomares, E.; López-Jury L.; Wetekam, J.; Kiai, A.; García-Rosales, F.; Hechavarria, J. C., (2021):
Male Carollia perspicillata bats call more than females in a distressful context
Royal Society Open Science, 8 (5)

González-Palomares, E.; López-Jury, L.; Garcia-Rosales, F.; Hechavarria, J.C., (2020):
Enhanced representation of natural sound sequences in the ventral auditory midbrain.
Brain Structure and Function, 226: 207-223.

Garcia-Rosales, F.; López-Jury, L.; González-Palomares, E.; Cabral-Calderin, Y.; Kössl, M.; Hechavarria, J. C., (2020):
Phase-amplitude coupling profiles differ in frontal and auditory cortices of bats.
European Journal of Neuroscience, 00: 1-19. 

Garcia-Rosales, F.: López-Jury, L.; González-Palomares, E.; Cabral-Calderín, Y.; Hechavarría, J. C., (2020):
Fronto-temporal coupling dynamics during spontaneous activity and auditory processing in the bat Carollia perspicillata.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 14: 14.

Contact

Eugenia Gonzales Palomares

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Institute for Cellbiology and Neuroscience

AK Neurobiology and Biological Sensors

Campus Riedberg
Biologicum, building part A, 3rd floor
Max-von Laue-Straße 13
60438 Frankfurt am Main

Room:  3.122
Email:   s3957245(at)stud.uni-frankfurt.de
Phone: +49 69 / 798-42064