Neurosciences

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Neurosciences

Research summary
Cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates: structure, function, connectivity, development, and evolution

Key words
neurobiology, vision, cerebral cortex, brain mapping, connectomics

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Immunology
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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The Walsh lab is interested in how the immune system is involved in both normal and pathological processes in the eye, exploring the contribution of both local immune cells and systemic immunity on ocular functioning.

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Autoimmunity, CD4 T cell biology, Uveitis, CNS border immunology, Translational Research

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Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Cancer Biology
Neurosciences

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We study how the major microtubule organizing center of animal cells, the centrosome, is formed and regulated to enable cell division and signaling

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Centrosomes, cilia, microtubules, cytoskeleton, organelles, subcellular organization, cell dynamics, mitosis, cell cycle, cell biology, biochemistry

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Neurosciences

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Understanding the neural mechanisms and neural computations underlying cognition and social behavior

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Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

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Mechanisms of development, injury and repair in the vertebrate auditory system

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hearing, vestibular, sensory, development, regeneration, macrophage, microglia

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Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

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The interplay between the ubiquitin-proteasome and autophagy pathways in skeletal muscle and neurodegenerative disorders

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protein production and clearance, proteasome, skeletal muscle, inclusion body, autophagy

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Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Elucidating the biological pathways underlying cognition, emotion, and behavior, determining developmental deviations and degenerative processes in these pathways

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Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

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Strategies to improve outcomes of nervous system injury and disease, regeneration and preservation

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Neurosciences

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Mechanisms of epileptogenesis and seizure-induced brain injury

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epilepsy, glia, imaging, multi-photon microscopy, neurophysiology

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Molecular Cell Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Repair and regeneration following nerve injury and soft tissue injury

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Plastic Surgery, Peripheral nerve, Regeneration, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials