Molecular mechanisms of ion channels and signaling molecules.

INS Graduate Student - Lewis-Peacock Lab

Investigate how brain rhythms affect memory operations, using multisite tetrode recordings from behaving animals.

INS Graduate Student - Colgin Lab

Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis

To understand how sensory systems function and develop

Brain research on transcranial lasers, memory enhancement, neuroprotection, neurocognitive disorders

To elucidate structural components involved in the cell biology of learning and memory.

Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders

Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy.

Ion channels, Ca2+ signaling, synapses, retinal circuits, nerve regeneration

Cognitive control, memory, functional neuroimaging, real-time neurofeedback

To understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation.

The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain

The genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders.

Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience

INS Graduate Student - 1st yr rotation

The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall.