Current affiliations

• Position

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  Company

  Dietmar Plenz Lab, NIMH/NIH

  Further information

Past affiliations

• Position

  Predoctoral researcher

  Company

  Scott M. Thompson Lab, University of Maryland, School of Medicine

  Duration

  2001 - 2008

  Further information

City:

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Hub:

Washington DC-Baltimore

Non-science interests:
During my doctoral studies, I played in a touring indie-rock band called The Seldon Plan. (Here is the Wiki).

We were lucky enough to tour and nationally release two full-length records on OTPRecords and Magnatune. We opened for some great national bands including: Matt Pond PA, The Octopus Project, The Stills, Now It’s Overhead, and
Explosions in the Sky among others. I also ran (and continue to run) an indie record label called The Beechfields Record Label.

My science interests are broad within the field of neuroscience, so I will just list some techniques I use and like:

DIC microscopy, electrophysiological techniques (patch clamp, voltage clamp, mini-recordings) biolistic transfection using gene-gun techniques, RT-PCR, confocal and live-cell imaging, single-photon microphotolysis, electrophysiological and morphological analysis, immunocytochemistry, cell culture.

My dissertation was on understanding the role of changes in astrocytic morphology and dendritic spine morphology on synaptic physiology.

I am also really intested in neurophilosophy (as my undergraduate degree was in philosophy) and the national and international politics of science and scientific discovery.

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