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Aric Agmon Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy School of Medicine University of West Virginia Neuronal subtypes and their synaptic connectivity in the thalamocortical and intracortical circuits underlying sensation Ehud Ahissar Dept. of Neurobiology -- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Neural mechanisms of adaptive perception Kurt Ahrens Post-doc with David Kleinfeld, Univ. of California, San Diego, Dept. of Physics Neurodynamics and the neural correlates of behavior Ayako Ajima RIKEN, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan   Kevin Alloway Dept. of Neuroscience & Anatomy, Penn State Univ.; phone: (717) 531-6413 Anatomic and electrophysiologic techniques are used to elucidate the structure and function of neural circuits in the thalamus, cortex, and basal ganglia that process somatosensory and motor information. Joop Arends Senior Scientist, Dept. of Neurology, Wash. U. Sch. of Med., St. Louis   Michael Armstrong-James Neuroscience Section, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Modification by innocuous experience of neural circuitry relaying tactile information in the somatosensory system of rodents and its relation to learning. Carlos Avendańo Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain   Allison Barth Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Identifying the neurons and synapses involved in cortical plasticity Carol Bennett-Clark Dept. of Neurosciences, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo Development and plasticity of sensory projections in the central nervous system Misha Beierlein Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ.; post-doc with Raphael Yuste Electrophysiology and Imaging of thalamocortical-evoked activity patterns Michael Brecht Dept of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands   Joshua Brumberg Department of Psychology, Queens College, Flushing, NY; (718) 997-3541 Using in vitro methods to study cortical circuitry Randy Bruno Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York thalamocortical connectivity and dynamics George E. Carvell Dept. of Physical Therapy, Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center   Manuel Castro-Alamancos Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine Dynamics of thalamo-cortico-thalamic synaptic networks; Cellular and network mechanisms of oscillations in neocortex Nicolas L. Chiaia Professor, Department of Neurosciences Medical University of Ohio, Toledo Normal development and injury-induced reorganization of the somatosensory system Bob Crissman Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo Anatomy & Neurobiology, Electron microscopy, neurophysiology David Crockett Dept. of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ Development and organization of somatosensory system; role of neurotrophins in the development of specific connectivity; spinal cord and brain stem organization; spinal cord injury; stem cells Martin Deschenes Centre de Recherche Univ. Laval R Giffard, Quebec, Canada sensory physiology, juxtacellular labeling, motor control, thalamus, vibrissa system, intracellular recording Kathryn Diekmann Wash. U., St. Louis yearly BARRELS mini-symposium coordinator Hongxim Dong Wash. U., St. Louis   Richard Dyck Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Cerebral Cortical Development and Plasticity; Recovery after Brain Injury Ford Ebner Dept. of Psychology and Cell Biology, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN synaptic plasticity in normal and functionally impaired cerebral cortex Irina Erchova International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy   Reha Erzurumlu Prof. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Medicine Axon Guidance; Pattern Formation; Neocortical Development; Neurotrophins; NMDA Receptors Dirk Feldmeyer Institute of Medicine, Cellular Neurobiology Research Centre Juelich, Germany Physiology, morphology and development of neuronal microcircuits in the barrel cortex Kevin Fox School of Biosciences, Cardiff Univ., Wales, UK Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Plasticity in the Cerebral Cortex Hideaki Fujita Akita Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels,  Japan   Roberto Galvez Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dept. of Physiology Conditioning induced plasticity as a function of age Stanislaw Glazewski Keele University, School of Life Sciences,  UK Physiological and molecular mechanisms that underlie plastic changes in cerebral cortex Jed Hartings Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. Electrophysiologic aspects of brain injury Mitra Hartmann Departments of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, IL Whisker mechanics and peripheral information encoding Theodore Henderson Wash. U., St. Louis   George W. Huntley Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York development and plasticity of sensorimotor representations Mark Jacquin Dept. of Neurology, Wash. U. Sch. of Med., St. Louis, Missouri Circuitry responsible for the functional organization of sensory systems; cellular and molecular principles controlling development of the mammalian peripheral and central nervous systems; structural and functional consequences of peripheral and central nervous system injury; strategies for repair of injured neural tissue Sonal Jhaveri Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachesetts Institute of Technology   Mike Jones Graduate student working with Dan Barth at University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Psychology High frequency oscillatory phenomena in sensory information processing Sharon Juliano Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD neocortical and developmental plasticity Masanobu Kano Riken Institute, Japan   Asaf Keller Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine Functional properties of cortical neurons; cortical control of movement; extrasynaptic neuronal integration; functional imaging Kathleen Kelly Dept. of Physical Therapy Univ. of Pittsburgh   Hiroyuki Kida Graduate student in Dr. Shimegi's lab, University of Osaka, Japan   Herb Killackey Univ. of California, Irvine Development and organization of the neocortex Adam Kohn Univ. of North Carolina Sch. of Med, Chapel Hill   Margaret Kossut Nencki Institute, Poland   Harold Kyriazi webmaster of this site; research associate of Dan Simons, Dept. of Neurobiology, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med. Computer modeling of cortical circuitry Ilan Lampl Dept. of Neurobiology, Weizmann Inst. of Science Sensory processing in the cerebral cortex. Topics include adaptation, spatial integration, up and down states and plasticity. We are performing intracellular recordings of S1 neurons of anesthetized rats. Pete Land (deceased) Dept. of Neurobiology, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med. early sensory experience and the formation and maintenance of functional circuits Ric Lane Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo The role of serotonin in cortical development; reorganization of the CNS at multiple levels in response to nerve injury during development Francesco Langone State Univ. of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Somatosensory cortical plasticity following peripheral nerve injury Steven Leiser Senior Research Scientist II Neuropharmacology & Neurophysiology, Wyeth, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey Somatosensory encoding in trigeminal primary afferents Joachim H.R. Luebke Juelich Research Center Juelich, Germany Neuronal microcircuits in barrel cortex Mark Maguire Vanderbilt Univ.   Susan Masino Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut   Tetsuya Matsuura Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels-AKITA, Japan   James McCasland Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse Development and Plasticity of Whisker/Barrel Cortex in Rodents. Peter Melzer Vanderbilt Univ. Vision Research Center Plasticity of Visuo-Tactile Cortical Maps Giovanni Mirabella International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy   Ben Mitchinson University of Sheffield and the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab at the Univ. of the West of England Whiskerbot: A Robot Whisker System Modelled on the Rat Mystacial Vibrissae Chris Moore MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research, & Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA How rapid changes in neural organization relate to rapid changes in tactile perception; frequency-dependent information processing Penny Murphy Dept. of Physiology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London Correlation of structure with function in the primary visual pathway Akira Nishimura Post-doc, Johns Hopkins Sch. of Med., Kennedy Krieger Inst. for Neuroscience   Jayson Parker Grad. student, Dept. of Physiology, Univ. of Toronto The significance of corticothalamic loops Antonio Pereira, Jr. Universidade Federal do Para, Departamento de Morfologia, Lab Neuroanatomia Funcional, 66075-900 Belem PA, BRAZIL Carl Petersen Laboratory of Sensory Processing Brain and Mind Institute Lausanne, Switzerland Dr. Petersen's web site David Pinto Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Cells & Synapses; Neurobiology of Disease; Sensory Systems & Perception; Theoretical & Computational Tony Prescott Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Sheffield, U.K. among other things, works on Whiskerbot: a robot model of rat facial whiskers David Price Biomedical Sciences Dept., Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland   Omid Rahimi Uniformed Services Univ., Bethesda, MD   V. Rema Dept. of Psychology, Vanderbilt University   Bernardo Rudy New York Univ. Sch. of Med. Molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal excitability Eduardo Salazar University of North Texas, graduate student with Jannon Fuchs GABA Inhibition in Barrel Cortex Satoshi Shimegi Hiromichi Sato lab, Osaka, Japan Systems Neuroscience Michael Shoykhet Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC Functional development of cortical circuits in barrels Daniel E. Shulz Integrative and Computational Neurosciences Center, French National Scientific Research Center, Gif-sur-Yvette Sensory information processing, neuromodulation and functional plasticity in the rat barrel cortex Dan Simons Univ. of Pittsburgh  Sch. of Med., Dept. of Neurobiology Electrophysiology, whisker stimulators, computer models Tryambak Deo Singh Post-doc, Department of Brain & Cognitive Science, University of Rochester neuronal plasticity Jolanta Skangiel-Kramska Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland   Rick Stevens Syracuse University Health Science Center   Simona Temereanca MGH-NMR/Martinos Center Harvard Medical School   Eric Thomson Duke University, Dept. of Neurobiology; Post-doc in Nicolelis lab Sensory coding in awake behaving rats Mark Tommerdahl Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Somatosensory cortical dynamics and neurocomputation in living neural networks. Robert Waters Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Development, organization, and reorganization of the forepaw barrel fields Ed White Dept. of Morphology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel Synaptic organization of the cerebral cortex, quantitative aspects, development and plasticity Tom Woolsey Depts. of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering Wash. U., St. Louis, Mo. CNS structure, function, development and disease models; dynamic regulation of the blood supply in the whisker/barrel system of rodents Andrzej Wróbel Laboratory of Visual System, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland Dynamics of the barrel cortex circuitry in behaving rats Phil Zeigler Psychology Department, Hunter College of the City University of New York Development of brain mechanisms mediating active touch in rodents; sensory processing and motor control [Home] [Background] [Announcements] [What's New] [Methods] [Contacts] [Pictures] URL=http://simonslab.neurobio.pitt.edu/barrels/contacts.htm Copyright © 1998; last updated 10/4/12 Webmaster