College of Medicine – Phoenix Department of Translational Neurosciences
When
Where
Health Sciences Education Building, Room C401
435 N. 5th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Event Description
The College of Medicine – Phoenix Department of Translational Neurosciences presents: "Modulating neuroplasticity in visual circuitry for therapeutic gain" presented by Aaron McGee, PhD.
Presenter Details
Aaron McGee, PhD
Research Scientist
University of Louisville
McGee received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado – Boulder in molecular biology and biochemistry. He volunteered as an undergraduate in the lab of Min Han, PhD, that studies the round worm C. Elegans. McGee received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of California – San Francisco (UCSF) where he investigated the structure and function of the prominent synaptic scaffolding protein Postsynaptic Density 95kd (PSD-95) in the lab of David Bredt, MD, PhD. Thereafter, he continued his training at Yale University School of Medicine were he first studied plasticity in a mouse model of spinal cord injury and then transitioned to investigating how neuroplasticity is confined to specific ‘critical periods’ during development. Since 2009, his lab has studied the genes and mechanisms that regulate experience-dependent plasticity by using the mouse visual system as a model. His work has been published in a variety of journals including the Journal of Biochemistry, Molecular Cell, Neuron, Science, Annals of Neurology, the Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology, and PLoS Biology.
CME Credit/Disclaimer
There are no CME credits associated with this seminar.