The goal of our lab is to understand how distributed neural circuits control feeding and motivation in health and disease. We are particularly interested in how diet influences the function of hypothalamic circuitry and how it may be modified in obesity and by developmental programming. We use a combination of deep brain two-photon calcium imaging, electrophysiology, and genetic tools to perturb and observe neural activity in vivo and in vitro.
Program Faculty
- Mark Rossi
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Psychiatry
- Graduate Program(s): Physiology and Integrative Biology
- Major Research Interest(s): Behavior, Learning / memory, Metabolism / Nutrition, Neuroscience, Pathogenesis
- Research Techniques: Fluorescent and super resolution microscopy, Genetics, Imaging, Single Cell RNA Techniques
- Research Organism(s): in vitro, Mice
- Phone: 1.7322359604
- Email: mark.rossi@rutgers.edu
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Child Health Institute of New Jersey CHI, Room 3276
- 89 French Street
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1935
- Key Words: In vivo imaging, neurocircuits, motivation, obesity, electrophysiology
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