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  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Laura Lee Colgin is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, contributing extensively to the fields of cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, signal processing, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in Laura Lee Colgin's research portfolio include:

  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Sleep and wakefulness research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Olfactory and sensory function studies

A significant portion of their work has been published in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cognitive Neurodynamics
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Progress in Neurobiology

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura Lee Colgin include:

  • "Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli," 2024, Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Abnormal patterns of sleep and waking behaviors are accompanied by neocortical oscillation disturbances in an Ank3 mouse model of epilepsy-bipolar disorder comorbidity," 2023, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Hippocampal oscillatory dynamics in freely behaving rats during exploration of social and non-social stimuli," 2022, Cognitive Neurodynamics
  • "Hippocampal place cell sequences differ during correct and error trials in a spatial memory task," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Impairments in Hippocampal Place Cell Sequences during Errors in Spatial Memory," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators of Laura Lee Colgin include Emma Robson, Nicholas Riveira, Sohmee Kim, Angel Y. Lopez, and Chenguang Zheng. These coauthors have contributed to multiple papers reflecting overlapping research interests.

In 2012, Laura Lee Colgin was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Frequency of gamma oscillations routes flow of information in the hippocampus

    Laura Lee Colgin;Tobias Denninger;Tobias Denninger;Marianne Fyhn;Marianne Fyhn;Torkel Hafting;Torkel Hafting

  • Cross-frequency coupling between neuronal oscillations

    Ole Jensen;Laura Lee Colgin

  • Rhythms of the hippocampal network

    Laura Lee Colgin

  • Mechanisms and Functions of Theta Rhythms

    Laura Lee Colgin

  • Understanding memory through hippocampal remapping

    Laura Lee Colgin;Edvard I. Moser;May Britt Moser

  • Mechanisms of Late-Onset Cognitive Decline after Early-Life Stress

    Kristen L. Brunson;Enikö Kramár;Bin Lin;Yuncai Chen

  • Coordination of entorhinal-hippocampal ensemble activity during associative learning.

    Kei M Igarashi;Li Lu;Laura Lee Colgin;May-Britt Moser

  • Oscillations and hippocampal–prefrontal synchrony

    Laura Lee Colgin

  • Gamma oscillations in the hippocampus.

    Laura Lee Colgin;Edvard I. Moser

  • Spatial representation along the proximodistal axis of CA1

    Espen J. Henriksen;Laura Lee Colgin;Carol A. Barnes;Carol A. Barnes;Menno P. Witter

  • Slow and Fast Gamma Rhythms Coordinate Different Spatial Coding Modes in Hippocampal Place Cells

    Kevin Wood Bieri;Katelyn N. Bobbitt;Laura Lee Colgin

  • Theta-gamma coupling in the entorhinal-hippocampal system.

    Laura Lee Colgin

  • Gamma oscillations in cognitive disorders

    Alexandra J Mably;Laura Lee Colgin

  • Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space.

    Georgia M. Alexander;Shannon Farris;Jason R. Pirone;Chenguang Zheng

  • Spatial Sequence Coding Differs during Slow and Fast Gamma Rhythms in the Hippocampus

    Chenguang Zheng;Kevin Wood Bieri;Yi Tse Hsiao;Laura Lee Colgin

  • Priming of hippocampal population bursts by individual perisomatic-targeting interneurons.

    Tommas J. Ellender;Wiebke Nissen;Laura Lee Colgin;Edward O. Mann;Edward O. Mann

  • Attractor-Map Versus Autoassociation Based Attractor Dynamics in the Hippocampal Network

    Laura Lee Colgin;Stefan Leutgeb;Karel Jezek;Jill K. Leutgeb

  • Long-term potentiation is impaired in middle-aged rats: regional specificity and reversal by adenosine receptor antagonists.

    Christopher S. Rex;Enikö A. Kramár;Laura L. Colgin;Bin Lin

  • Impairments in spatial representations and rhythmic coordination of place cells in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

    Alexandra J. Mably;Brian J. Gereke;Dylan T. Jones;Laura Lee Colgin

  • Long-term potentiation is impaired in rat hippocampal slices that produce spontaneous sharp waves.

    Laura Lee Colgin;Don Kubota;Yousheng Jia;Christopher S. Rex

  • Endogenous waves in hippocampal slices.

    Don Kubota;Laura Lee Colgin;Malcolm Casale;Fernando A. Brucher

Frequent Co-Authors

Edvard I. Moser
Edvard I. Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Christine M. Gall
Christine M. Gall University of California, Irvine
Enikö A. Kramár
Enikö A. Kramár University of California, Irvine
Gavin Rumbaugh
Gavin Rumbaugh Scripps Research Institute
Ole Paulsen
Ole Paulsen University of Cambridge
Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona
Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen University of Oxford
Jill K. Leutgeb
Jill K. Leutgeb University of California, San Diego
Amy Arai
Amy Arai Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

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