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Christian Burgess

Research Assistant Professor

MM Michigan Neuroscience Institute

Orcid identifier0000-0001-6133-8089
  • Research Assistant Professor
    MM Michigan Neuroscience Institute
  • Assistant Professor
    MM Molecular and Integrative Physiology
  • Center Member
    Caswell Diabetes Institute
  • 734-647-9862
  • University of Michigan, Michigan Neuroscience Institute, 109 ZINA PITCHER PL, BSRB5053, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States

BIO

The Burgess lab investigates how learning, as well as changes in motivational and arousal state, impacts how we process the sensory environment. Using neuroanatomical tracing, behavior, optogenetics, and in vivo two-photon calcium imaging in mice, we aim to map the circuits that underlie fundamental behaviors, like sleep and feeding, and elucidate how these circuits impact learning and sensory processing in higher-order brain regions.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN APPOINTMENTS

  • Research Assistant Professor
    MM Michigan Neuroscience Institute
  • Assistant Professor
    MM Molecular and Integrative Physiology
  • Center Member
    Caswell Diabetes Institute

DEGREES

  • BSc
    University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada1 Sep 2001 - 1 May 2005
  • PhD
    University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada1 Sep 2006 - 1 Aug 2012

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral fellow
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States1 Oct 2012 - 31 Dec 2017
    Postdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Andermann ML

AVAILABILITY

  • Mentorship

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