1) Our lab studies the connection between plasticity-dependent mechanisms for stroke recovery and sleep-dependent plasticity. Our goal is to develop new, innovative sleep-focused treatments and interventions to improve outcomes in patients with neurological disease. 2) Our lab studies the neuroprotective effect of torpor (a hypothermic and hypometabolic state.
Research keywords: sleep; torpor; neuroprotection
Basic information
| Pronouns: | He/Him/His |
| Mentoring statement: | Team members gain experience in multi-modality optical and electrophysiological imaging, neuromodulation, therapeutic interventions and computational analysis of data in pre-clinical models of stroke and sleep. Our core beliefs are scientific integrity, collaboration and respect of racial, sexual, gender, religious, political, and cultural beliefs. |
| Some former postdocs’ career outcomes: | I have not trained any post-docs, but I have extensive experience mentoring gap-year students with many of them at medical schools like Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Duke and in graduate schools such as Cal Tech and Harvard. |
Postdoc openings within the next year
| Number of postdoc positions: | 1 |
| Postdoc eligibility: | U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents Current Visa-Holding Trainees in the U.S. International Trainees Outside the U.S. |