Neuroscience

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• Timing and ecological correlates of brain size evolution, brain proportions, and cranial anatomy in primates
• Use of cranio-dental anatomy to reconstruct ecological adaptations (e.g. Feeding ecology) in the fossil record

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• Microcircuitry of sensory-motor transformations in the zebrafish

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• Neuroanatomical and molecular variation in primates variation in primates

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• Optical microscopy in basic and translational neuroscience

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• Cell biology of developing nerve and muscle cells

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• Anatomy and physiology of network of mouse visual cortex

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• Sensorineural unilateral hearing loss (UHL)
• Blindness

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• Mechanisms of peripheral nervous system (PNS) regeneration
• Identify potential targets for therapeutic interventions in central nervous system injury and traumatic PNS injuries

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• The dynamics of neuromodulators and intracellular signals and how they contribute to the function of neuromodulators, to learning, and to the function of sleep

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• Neuronal and glial cell degeneration

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• Neuronal mechanisms of perception

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• Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation that contribute to development and plasticity in the mammalian brain

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• Neural mechanisms of learning and memory
• Spatial coding in hippocampal neurons
• Neuronal circuit dynamics

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• Intersection between neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI)

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• Neural mechanisms of pheromone detection, recognition, and olfactory learning
• Novel optical methods for recording neuronal activity

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• Cellular, circuit and computational mechanisms of memory

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• Identify neural processes underlying specific behavioral capacities in rodent models of cognition

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• Neuroimmunology with a focus on microglial biology

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• Neuronal circuits involved in uncertainty-processing

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• Molecular mechanisms underlying tauopathies
• Stem cell models of dementia

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• Dissecting synapse function and development

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• Mechanisms underlying the specification, regulation, and neurodegeneration of dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems

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• Electrophysiology
• Circuit mapping
• Behavior
• 3D brain volume imaging

 

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• Decision making
• Reward circuits

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• Astrocytes in brain circuitry and brain computation
• Interplay between neuromodulation and gliotransmission
• How neuromodulators affect the activity of astrocytes

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• Chewing system evolution, development, and plasticity

Research interests:

• Development, plasticity and function of the cerebral cortex

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• How ion channels function in physiology and behavior

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• Molecular/genetic analysis of sleep function

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• Eye-hand coordination
• Spatial memory
• Neuronal basis of fcMRI

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• Circadian physiology and behavior

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• Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

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• Cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates: structure, function, connectivity, development, and evolution

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• Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)