Behavioural Neuroscience

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor: Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University

EDUCATION:
After graduation from Haverford College with a BA in psychology, he obtained his PhD in neurobiology at Caltech, where he studied the primate visual system with David Van Essen. He then did a postdoctoral fellowship with Bruce McNaughton at the University of Arizona, where he studied the spatial firing characteristics of place cells and head direction cells of the rat hippocampus and limbic system. In 1998, he started his own laboratory in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS: Charles Evans Foundation Research Award (2010)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Work in our laboratory attempts to understand the flow of information through the hippocampal formation and the computations performed by the various subfields of the hippocampus and its inputs from the entorhinal cortex. To address these issues, we use multi-electrode arrays to record the extracellular action potentials from scores of well-isolated hippocampal neurons in freely moving rats.