Research
Research programmes
We use tracing, confocal microscopy, genetic and pharmacological tools, electrophysiology and behavioural testing to study detour circuit formation and recovery.
Objective 01
Synapse formation and elimination after SCI
How regrowing axons find targets and form appropriate connections; how circuits are refined over time.
Objective 02
Activity-dependent axonal plasticity
Intraspinal detour circuits as anatomical substrates of functional recovery after incomplete lesions.
Objective 03
Mild repetitive traumatic brain injury
Structural and functional consequences of repeated concussive and sub-concussive head impacts.