About me
Dr. Minke Nota is a second-year postdoctoral researcher in her first year of the T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the UW Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, mentored by Dr. Mitra Heshmati. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and her master’s degree in Neuroscience & Cognition, both at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She then conducted her PhD research on the effects of lifestyle on hippocampal neurogenesis at University College Cork in Ireland. Minke’s current research is focused on the characterization of whole brain neural ensembles activated by anesthetic agents, with a particular interest in the role of the ventral hippocampus in post-anesthetic cognitive impairment as well as the role of the parabrachial nucleus in anesthetic action.