Gary Marsat

BIOGRAPHY

Gary Marsat is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member Leonard Maler to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

Gary Marsat also has responsibility for checking the contents of the following journals to ensure that the highest quality research relevant to their own interests within these publications is comprehensively and systematically evaluated for F1000:

- Nature Neuroscience
- Journal of Neurophysiology

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Postdoctoral Fellow: Maler Lab, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• 2009 Postdoctoral Faculty Award for excellence in research and leadership potential
• Member of the Roger Guindon graduate student and PDF Committee

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The nervous system can be divided in three levels: sensory areas (the input side), motor areas (the output side) and higher functions (such as decision making). A central theme in neuroethology is to relate the sensory input to the behavioral output. An important task in this endeavor is to understand how sensory signals are first encoded by the nervous system. Relevant signals must be be encoded efficiently and the information carried to higher brain areas in a format most appropriate for further processing. My main interest is to understand how nervous systems perform this task, in other words how sensory signals are transformed by the nervous system to ultimately produce the appropriate behavior. I use a combination of in vivo electrophysiology, computational neuroscience tools, behavioral assays, and pharmacological manipulations.

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