Research in the Stock laboratory is broadly focused on bacterial signal transduction, molecular information processing pathways that enable bacteria to sense changes in their environments and elicit appropriate adaptive responses. Such processes are important for host-microbe interactions, and thus are relevant to therapeutic strategies to promote beneficial host-microbe interactions or to develop new antibiotics to combat infectious disease.
The current project is focused on characterizing (...)
Aresty Summer Science
CABM, RBHS - RWJMS
Biochemistry, Biomedical Science, Molecular Biology (...)
The brain is an incredibly complex biological machine capable of guiding behavior based on past experience and current sensory information. Traditional models parcellated the brain into areas that process distinct types of information. However, neural signals mix to a much greater degree than was previously appreciated, and how neural circuits perform computations to guide behavior is still unclear. This project involves recording from many neurons simultaneously while mice perform foraging behaviors. (...)
Aresty Summer Science
SAS - Psychology
Biology, Physiology, Psychology, Animal Behavior, (...)
We conduct research on how people navigate in the presence of other people, which we study by putting human subjects in a virtual reality (VR) environment (via a VR headset) and asking them to navigate around obstacles, which may be virtual "people." The key question is how they navigate around other people, a topic called "social wayfinding." Navigation and wayfinding are essential aspects of human cognition, which require us to integrate many types of information in real time in order to accomplish (...)
Aresty Summer Science
SAS - Center for Cognitive Sciences, SAS - Psychology
Cognitive Science
Our research investigates nanotechnologies and their applications for biomedicine and health. One of the research lines is focused on developing a therapeutic tool to halt the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. We utilize nanotechnology as a strategy to protect neurons from the neurotoxic pro-inflammatory events associated with brain degeneration
Aresty Summer Science
Engn - Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Science, Neuroscience
Traumatic brain injury is primarily caused by deformations of the brain tissue due to mechanical trauma, followed by rapid release of glutamate and subsequent excitotoxicity (secondary damage). Additionally, the early phase of secondary injury has been found to cause loss of dendritic spines and formation of varicosities along dendrites and axons. Our lab’s recent findings using an in vitro model of NMDA-induced injury demonstrate that cytosolic PSD-95 interactor protein (cypin) promotes functional (...)
Aresty Summer Science
SAS - DLS - Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biomedical Science, (...)
