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Name, Field, Position, Department, and Keyword |
Graduate Student associated with: Dave M. Lin Keywords: Axon guidance (3), Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Olfaction (11) I am interested in how the axons of olfactory sensory neurons find their targets in the olfactory bulb. I am using microarray analysis of olfactory bulb tissue to discover differentially expressing genes. I believe these differentially expressing genes may play a role in guiding olfactory sensory neurons to their correct locations. |
Graduate Student associated with: Joseph R. Fetcho Keywords: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Fish (12), Genetics (9), Motor Systems (13), Regeneration (2), Sensorimotor Systems (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) Regeneration, calcium imaging, voltage imaging, spinal cord, development, self organization, movement, computational modelling, biophysics, anything interesting. |
Graduate Student associated with: Elise Temple Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience (17), Development (21), Imaging (8), Social behavior (12), Systems Neuroscience (25) I am currently investigating the neurological correlates of different attention networks and how those relate to the cognitive, behavioral and social deficits persistent in Autistic Spectrum Disorders. I am interested in both structure and pathway differences between autistic and non-clinical individuals as well as typical and pathological neural development. |
Graduate Student associated with: Patrick J. Stover, Barbara J. Strupp Keywords: Development (21), Hippocampus (11), Learning and Memory (13), Mouse (11), Neurogenesis (7) My interests lie in understanding the role of folate-based one carbon metabolism in central nervous system function, and more specifically in elucidating the molecular mechanisms that account for known associations between impairments in folate metabolism and disrupted neural development and neural function. |
Graduate Student associated with: Francisco J Valero-Cuevas Keywords: Mathematical Modeling (14), Motor Systems (13), Sensorimotor Systems (11) I am interested in the clinical applications of biomechanics research, specifically rehabilitation technology and surgical procedures. Recently, I have been fascinated by functional electrical stimulation technology as well as neural implants. I am interested in neural control of movement and the effects of anatomical variability on models of the human thumb. Currently, I am investigating the ability of robotics-based thumb models to realistically predict maximal static thumbtip forces in 3D using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. |
Graduate Student associated with: David J. Field Keywords: Computational Neuroscience (13), Mathematical Modeling (14), Vision (11) By evolution and experience, animal visual processing has adapted to the statistics of our natural environment to maximize both speed and metabolic efficiency. This has lead to complex visual systems with striking regularities among many animal species in terms of early cortical and pre-cortical coding. It is critical to our understanding that we establish the link between the guiding principles of computational efficiency and this resulting neural code. The primary approach I am taking involves studying the statistics of natural scenes to explain the response properties of neurons in early visual cortex. Currently, I am exploring ways of extending neurally-relevant efficient encoding techniques with linear spatial filters to various classes of nonlinear spatiotemporal filters. The intention is to explain cortical nonlinearities from an ecological efficiency perspective. Also visit my 5 Research/Photo Gallery entries |
Graduate Student associated with: David P. McCobb Keywords: Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Neuroendocrinology (7), Neuromodulation (12), Stress (8) My research interests lie within the realm of stress physiology. What stress does, how it does it, and why it does what it does. To examine the mechanisms of stress I work on calcium and voltage activated potassium channels that are located in the adrenal medulla. These ion channels shape the firing properties of chromaffin cells, which are responsible for adrenaline release during a stress response. I am particularly interested in the interactions that stress steroids have with these ion channels and how these interactions contribute to the stress response. I do this work in David McCobb's Lab. |
Graduate Student associated with: Carl D. Hopkins Keywords: Axon guidance (3), Behavioral genetics (7), Development (21), Electroreception (3), Fish (12), Genetics (9), Ion channel (6), Neuroethology (24), Neurogenesis (7), Neuromodulation (12), Social behavior (12), Systems Neuroscience (25) I am intersted in the evolutionary development of novel structures used in communication systems, both on the processing and on the production side. |
Graduate Student associated with: Thomas A. Cleland, Christiane Linster Keywords: Mouse (11), Neuroethology (24), Neurogenesis (7), Olfaction (11), Systems Neuroscience (25) I am interested in how the olfactory system processes odors so that an animal responds with the correct behavior to a particular stimulus. To get at this question, I am training mice to associate a particular odorant with either a positive, negative, or social stimulus. Following learninig, I look for immediate early gene activation in the olfactory bulb and secondary olfactory structures following exposure to that odorant. I am also interested in how learning affects neurogenesis in the olfactory bulb. |
Graduate Student Keywords: Aging (6), Cell and Molecular Neuroscience (23), Mouse (11), Neurodegeneration (1), Proteins (3) I am studying the function of MGRN1 and ATRN in mouse brain using proteomic approaches. |
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