We are delighted to complement our research through the exchange of expertise and staff with the following groups:
Within the University of Cambridge:
- Dr Hugh PC Robinson (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) on conductance clamp and integrative properties of interneruons.
- Dr Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab) on the relation between encoding and retrieval of information in oscillating networks.
With the University of Oxford:
- Prof. Nick Rawlins and Dr David Bannerman (Department of Experimental Psychology) on the relation between synaptic plasticity and learning/memory processes.
- Dr Jozsef Csicsvari (MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit) on hippocampal network oscillations.
- Prof. Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on cortical development.
- Prof. David Paterson and Prof. Peter Kohl (Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on multiphoton microscopy.
- Dr Louise Upton (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on cortical sensory processing in vivo.
- Prof. Angela Vincent (Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital) on synaptic plasticity in disease processes.
- Prof. Harry Anderson (Department of Chemistry) on new dyes and caged compounds.
- Prof. Tony Wilson (Department of Engineering) on scanning optical microscopy.
- Dr Richard Wade-Martins (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) on the role of microtubule associated protein tau (MAPT) in synaptic plasticity.
- Prof. Paul Harrison (Department of Psychiatry) on the neurobiology of schizophrenia susceptibility genes, including neuregulin, COMT, DAO and mGluR3.
- Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge (Departments of Psychiatry, Experimental Psychology and Pharmacology) on the study of COMT's role in psychiatric disorders.
External:
- Prof. Arjen Brussaard and Dr Huibert Mansvelder (Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) on network oscillations and synaptic plasticity.
- Prof. Peter Dayan (The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London) on the relation between encoding and retrieval of information in oscillating networks.
- Prof. Tamás Freund and Dr Norbert Hájos (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary) on the role of GABAergic interneurons in network oscillations.
- Prof. Edvard Moser (Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) on spike timing in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex.
- Prof. Terrence Sejnowski (The Salk Institute and UCSD, San Diego, USA) on the computational role of network oscillation.