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Faculty associated with: Robert Clewley, Veronica J. Santos Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (3), Computational Neuroscience (13), Mathematical Modeling (14), Motor Systems (13), Sensorimotor Systems (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) Our laboratory is dedicated to understanding the biomechanics, neuromuscular control and clinical rehabilitation of complex neuromuscular systems such as the human hand. Towards this end, we employ a synergy of experimental and theoretical techniques. Our diverse experimental arsenal ranges from EMG recording and custom-made virtual reality modules, to human brain mapping with fMRI. These procedures in turn inform theoretical work to characterize neuromuscular function through rigorous and complete neuromuscular computer models, artificial intelligence, and nonlinear systems analysis. |
Faculty associated with: Thomas A. Cleland, Ann Marie McNamara Keywords: Computational Neuroscience (13), Learning and Memory (13), Neuromodulation (12), Olfaction (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) I am interested the neurobiology of learning and memory and I use the sense of smell in rats, mice and honeybees as a model system. My lab uses computational, electrophysiological, pharmacological and behavioral tools to ask questions about odor processing, plasticity, neuromodulation and learning and memory. |
Faculty Keywords: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Hippocampus (11), Mouse (11), Neurotransmitter receptors and transporters (9) The solution of seeming impossible experimental problems drives our creation of new experimental technologies for neuroscience, which during the past thirty years have focused primarily on observing the dynamics of the biomolecular processes of life. This challenge requires benign, effectively non-invasive methods that frequently push the physical limits of resolution in space, time and sensitivity. Several of these innovations: Multiphoton Microscopy (MPM), Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), nanoscopic molecular tracking and most recently, nanostructured molecular dynamic probes are being applied to some of these seeming impossible biological problems. Over the years, about 35 of our publications have focused on the challenges of neuroscience, including: molecular mechanisms and physics of auditory transduction, the first successful single channel recording of reconstituted natural ion channels and on their structural fluctuations and mechano-sensitivity, signal delays along neural processes in neural networks, detection and imaging of serotonin and its secretion, imaging the development of the lesions of AlzheimerÌs Disease in transgenic mice, and most recently (now in press) successful optical imaging of action potentials with time resolutions corresponding to patch clamp recordings which promises to supplement the usual application of MPM to calcium signals as a method of choice for neural response measurements in live neural networks. |
Faculty Keywords: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Hippocampus (11), Neurotransmitter receptors and transporters (9), Neurotransmitter release (3) The main focus of my laboratory is on the mechanisms of exocytosis, neurotransmitter release and synaptic transmission. The multidisciplinary lab employs a broad battery of tools to investigate these topics including moloecular biology, patch clamp electrophysiology, capacitance, amperometry, electrochemical imaging using nanofabricated electrode arrays, microcip devices, total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, and optical tweezers. |
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