Molecular mechanisms underlying alcoholism

Cellular/molecular mechanisms of plasmalemmal repair and nerve regeneration.

Hippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis

To understand how sensory systems function and develop

Eye Development, Disease and Regeneration, Developmental Biology, Genetics

To elucidate structural components involved in the cell biology of learning and memory.

Lauren is currently a 5th year INS Graduate Student in Dr. Darrin Brager's Lab where she studies hippocampal inhibitory interneurons.

INS Graduate Student - 1st Year

Discovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders

Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy.

Ion channels, Ca2+ signaling, synapses, retinal circuits, nerve regeneration

To understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation.

Neurobiology of reward learning and addiction

The formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain

Ph.D. student in David Hillis lab studying the evolutionary developmental biology of subterranean salamanders from Texas

The role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall.