Principal Investigator

Susumu Tonegawa

Program Coordinator

Katie Mulroy

Lab Manager

Dennis King

Mouse Colony Manager

Carrie Ragion

Postdoctoral Associates & Research Scientists

Derek Buhl—Hippocampal circuit dynamics studied by in vivo electrophysiology, transgenic animals and optogenetics

Gishnu Das—Dopamine circuits for learning and decision-making

George Dragoi—Internal representation of spatial-temporal information by hippocampal cellular assemblies

Emily Hueske—Role of dopamine neuron NMDARs in learning and decision-making

Hae-Yoon Jung—Electrical and morphological plasticity of single neurons in brain circuits

Takashi Kitamura—Genetic dissection of the entorhinal-hippocampal neuronal curcuits in memory systems

Keigo Kohara—Circuit genetics of hippocampal learning and memory

Xu Liu—Molecular genetics and optogenetics of memory engrams

Toshiaki Nakashiba—Functions of hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus in learning and memory

Tim O’Connor—Electrophysiology, optogenetics, multi-photon microscopy, real-time systems, data acquisition, image analysis

Petti Pang—Memory engrams studied with in vivo electrophysiological and optogenetic approaches

Corey Puryear—Functions of dopamine neuron firing studied by optogenetic, electro-physiological, and behavioral methods

Roger Redondo—Physiological and molecular mechanisms for development and maintenance of behavioral changes

Alex Rivest—Role of entorhinal cortex in episodic-like memory

Kathleen Rockland—Connectogenomics of hippocampal network

Tomas Ryan—Functions and mechanisms of memory reconsolidation

Joshua Sarinana—Role of dopamine 1 and 5 receptor on hippocampal plasticity, learning and memory

Junghyup Suh—Genetic dissection of the cortical-hippocampal memory system

Lisa Sultzman—Mapping neural circuits of mouse brain

Akiko Wagatsuma—Role of norepinephrin in control of attention in learning and memory

Jun Yamamoto—Large-scale multi-unit recordings of transgenic mice to investigate memory replay deficits

Jennie Young—In vivo electrophysiology of object-space relationship

Graduate Students

Kean Jaime-Bustamante—Role of amygdala in reward-based learning

Steve Ramirez—Optogenetics and transgenics to manipulate hippocampal and amygdala memory engrams

Sangyu Xu—Serotonin and decision-making processes

Undergraduate Students

Grace Lin

Joanne Zhou