Neuroscience

The PDN Neurohub is comprised of 17 research laboratories examining the development and functioning of the central nervous system in multiple species. 

Contemporary systems neuroscience approaches alongside transcriptomics, modelling, behaviour, in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology and calcium imaging, and MRI are being used to understand the fundamental principles of neuronal and circuit dynamics. We aim to understand how these are altered in diverse conditions ranging from psychiatric illness to neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.

Labs

• Bayin lab

• Belin lab

• Beltramo lab

  How the brain transforms sensory signals into the neural representations of the outside world that guide our behaviour

• Cardona-Torrens lab

  Neural circuit reconstruction of Drosophila larva

• Clarke lab

  Neural and neurochemical basis of negative emotional behaviour and their implications for psychiatric disorders

• Galliano lab

  Neural network development, plasticity and impact on behaviour

• Herbison lab

  Properties and functioning of the key neural populations controlling fertility in mammals

• de Hoz lab

• Jones lab

  How neuronal communication is disrupted in pathological states that mimic neurological disorders

• Keshavarzi lab

  Neural mechanisms underlying the sense of self-motion and spatial orientation

• Paulsen lab

  Cellular basis of information processing in the mammalian brain

• Poort lab

  Neural mechanisms of visually-guided learning, attention and decision-making

• Roberts lab

  Neural circuits underlying the regulation and dysregulation of positive and negative emotion

• Robinson lab

  Ion channels and neuron dynamics

• Translational Neuroimaging Lab

  Utilising ultra-high-field MRI and MRS to investigate the structural, metabolic, and functional architecture of the central nervous system.

• Tamura lab

  How can we recognise rules governing this world, and apply them to achieve our behavioural goal?