Kevin Bolding

We are recruiting lab personnel. If systems neuroscience at the intersection of olfaction and memory excites you, now is an excellent time to get in touch.

Our goal is to discover fundamental rules and mechanisms that govern information storage and retrieval in neural systems. Our primary focus will be establishing the changes in neural circuit and population dynamics that correspond to odor recognition memory. To bring our understanding of this process to a new level of rigor we will apply quantitative statistical approaches to relate behavioral signatures of odor recognition to activity and plasticity in olfactory circuits. We will use in vivo electrophysiology and calcium imaging to capture the activity of large neural populations during olfactory experience, and we will apply cell-type specific perturbations of activity and plasticity to piece apart how specific circuit connections contribute.