Director, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon; Neural Circuits of Behavior; Cerebral Cortex; Neural Dynamics; Neuromodulation
Eugene, OR
Joined January 2016
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Happiness 101 oregonquarterly.uoregon.edu/…
Our course made it to the Oregon Quarterly. Looking forward to starting a new class this fall!
We have put a significant part of our course "Happiness: a Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective" online at HappyNeurons.org. We have 515 eager university students this fall and the course has a 95-100% approval rating. Want use our materials for your course? Contact us
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Two papers from my postdoc are out this week. Together, they advance the use of ethological visual tasks and techniques for studying visual coding in freely moving mice. I am looking for folks to join me on this exciting journey forward in my new lab at Rutgers! 1/4
Imaging cholinergic and noradrenergic axons across the cortex in awake mice reveals a broad state-dependent signal as well as heterogeneity. Congrats Lindsay Collins! @DrAxonHunter @IONatUO biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Looking for postdoctoral fellows to join the McCormick lab, University of Oregon. Working in systems neuroscience on cortical/thalamic activity, attention, performance and state using the latest in optical/ electrical techniques. Please retweet!
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My postdoc, Dennis Nestvogel (@Neural_Nestbird), just published a very nice paper in Neuron today - showing that visual cortical arousal state changes are driven by activity in the thalamus and that the alpha rhythm is a thalamocortical oscillation. authors.elsevier.com/a/1dyUY…
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Thriving in a dynamic world requires flexibility. A team of researchers in UO’s Institute of Neuroscience that includes @DavidAMcCormick & @cris_niell is seeking to better understand the neural mechanisms behind such shifts in attention and behavior. bit.ly/3qDnprY
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The future of US science is in the hands of current leaders- university presidents, provosts, deans and chairs, who are confronting huge budget deficits. I hope they will be wise, take the long view and strive to support the scientific enterprise, which is needed more than ever.
Just published a review with Biyu Jade He @BiyuHe and Dennis Nestvogel @Neural_Nestbird in Annual Review of Neuroscience on State Dependent Activity and Performance in Mouse and Human. Have a look if you are bored and stuck at home. annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10…
Despite what people think about the younger generation, what they miss most during this time is their friends, social interactions, and real classes. Not partying or traveling. Survey in my class on happiness using mentimeter.
My online teaching setup. Zoom on a Macbook pro, connected to an extra monitor. Yeti Blue microphone for better sound quality, ipad running Astropad, so that I can draw on the slides or whiteboard with an apple pen. Logitech Spotlight allows for laser pointing or highlighting.
His foundational work on thalamocortical rhythms was decades ahead of its time. Per was a true inspiration to future generations of neuroscientists! I will miss him.
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Hosted our first online Institute happy hour. One bonus - we got to reconnect with students from across the country! Stay safe y'all. And reconnect!
Be mind healthy my friends. Get out and hike or bike or run - alone or with your roomies. Activities that are safe. Peace.