Position Title
Associate Professor
- NPB, Center for Neuroscience
Degrees
1996 PhD (Neurobiology) Duke University
1990 BS (Biology) Stanford University
Research Interests
The Barn Owl Connectome Project
Our current goal is to reconstruct the complete wiring diagram of local circuits in the barn owl auditory localization pathway. This is a classic model system for studying the neural bases of information processing, plasticity and learning. Our integrative approach combines in vivo electrophysiology, auditory and visual receptive field mapping, tracer injection, immmunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, automated transmission electron microscopy, 3D visualization, computer simulation and bootstrap analysis. We hope to better understand how individual life experience is encoded by changes in wiring patterns, and by extension, to shed light on principles of neural processing that are employed across brain regions and across species.
Awards
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academies
Department and Center Affiliations
Center for Neuroscience
Department of Neurobiology, Phsyiology, and Behavior
CBS Grad Group Affiliations
Neuroscience
Specialties / Focus
Neuroscience
- Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
- Development and Plasticity
- Systems Neuroscience
Labs
SOM rm 106/317
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DeBello Lab: Will DeBello, Tom McBride
Teaching Interests
Plasticity and learning, auditory system, human physiology, seminar speaking.