Per Jesper Sj枚str枚m, PhD
Associate Professor,聽Department of Medicine and聽Department of Neurology &聽Neurosurgery
Dr Jesper Sj枚str枚m is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience at 平特五不中's Centre for Research in Neuroscience (CRN), where his team explores plasticity in the brain using 2-photon imaging, quadruple patching, optogenetics, and computer modelling.聽After an MSc in Molecular Biotechnology at Uppsala University in 1996, he obtained a PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis University in 2003, under the supervision of Dr Sacha B. Nelson. Following four years of postdoctoral studies at University College London (UCL) in the lab of Dr Michael H盲usser, he remained on at UCL as an聽MRC聽Career Development Fellowship聽awardee running an independent lab. After arriving at 平特五不中 in 2011, he received the CIHR聽New Investigator聽and the FRQS聽Chercheurs-Boursiers Senior 9聽awards. His research has unveiled plasticity learning rules, neocortical connectivity patterns, and unorthodox forms of NMDA receptor signaling. He is Specialty Chief Editor of聽Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, as well as聽board member of the聽Journal of Physiology聽and聽the UK Royal Society's聽Open Biology.
- Mechanisms and phenomenology of synaptic plasticity learning rules
- Information storage and memory in the brain
- The organization of connectivity in cortical circuits in health and disease
- Advanced optical approaches in neuroscience research