PhD

 Since I began my neuroscience training, I have been highly motivated to study the fundamental mechanisms of memory and apply them to human neuropathology. This is because I believe by better understanding how neurons adapt and stores information, we can better understand systems-level disorders. Just as we are what we remember at a systems level, our individual neurons can only act according to their biological memory. However, understanding microscale processes are not enough they must be studied in context. This is why the focus of the labratory is on key processes that occur in the nucleus, such as changes in DNA structure, DNA modification and DNA repair processes, and how they alter, amoung other things, transcriptional output in neurons during learning events.