Our Research

A few questions our research seeks to answer include:

Which brain circuits co-control different types of fear?

What network, circuits, and genes control the strength of our fear memories?

Do brain-wide molecular networks exhibit a topological structure that represents learned fear differently than innate fear?

Are there key hub genes within these topologically-structured molecular networks that intrinsically differentiate between learned and innate fears?

Techniques

We use a variety of research techniques to answer the questions above, find out more about many of these techniques below.

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Viruses

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Optogenetics

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Fiber Photometry

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Miniscope Imaging

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CRISPR Gene Editing

Brain Network Analyses

Immunohistochemistry

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Real-time PCR

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In Situ Hybridization

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Molecular Cloning

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RNAseq

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ELISA

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Animal Behavior

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Chemogenetics / Pharmacology

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Neuroanatomy

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Deep Learning

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Whole Brain Labeling and Imaging

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What can we Invent?

Google Scholar

Researchgate

Twitter

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Loop

ELUCIDATING THE NEUROBIOLOGAL SUBSTRATES OF MEMORY & EMOTION

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