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Research Interests
Understanding the cellular and circuit mechanisms responsible for the neuronal activity that allows mammals to navigate and find their way to specific destinations by developing and applying novel optical and genetic techniques to perform cellular and subcellular resolution imaging and manipulation of neuronal population activity in mice navigating in virtual reality environments.
Education/Academic qualification
Biophysics, PhD, Cornell University
… → 2005
Physics, MS, Cornell University
… → 2003
Physics, BS, University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign
… → 2000
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Grants 2010 2022
NCS-FO: How Ecology Induces Cognition: Paleontology, Machine Learning, and Neuroscience
Dombeck, D. A. & MacIver, M. A.
9/1/18 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
Ecology
Learning systems
Animals
Brain
Planning
“la Caixa” Fellowship
Indiana University, Fundación Bancaria Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, "la Caixa"
8/1/18 → 7/31/19
Project: Research project
Cognition
Dopaminergic Neurons
Dermatoglyphics
Schizophrenia
Research
Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program
Acosta, A., Allada, R., Apkarian, A., Awatramani, R., Beeman, M., Bevan, M. D., Bozza, T. C., Cang, J., Chetkovich, D. M., Cobia, D. J., Contractor, A., Corcos, D. M., DeVries, S. H., Dewald, J. P. A., Dhar, S., Disterhoft, J. F., Dombeck, D. A., Elliott, J. M., Feng, Y., Ferreira, A. B., Gallio, M., Garcia-Anoveros, J., George Jr, A. L., Geula, C., Gordon, K. E., Gottfried, J. A., Grafman, J. H., Hartmann, M. J. Z., Heckman, C., Hespos, S. J., Jayaraman, A., Kahnt, T., Kearney, J. A., Kessler, J., Kiskinis, E., Kohtz, J., Kording, K. P., Kozorovitskiy, Y., Krainc, D., Larson, C., Lee, S. S. M., Li, L., Losh, M. C., Maccaferri, G., MacIver, M. A., Martina, M., Mazzulli, J., McLean, D., Mesulam, M., Miller, L. E., Miller, R. J., Mussa-Ivaldi, F., Nusslock, R., Opal, P., Ozdinler, P. H., Paller, K., Parrish, T. B., Prakriya, M., Radulovic, J., Raman, I. M., Reber, P. J., Redei, E., Rogalski, E., Sanchez, J. T., Sanz-Clemente, A., Savas, J. N., Schmidt, T. M., Schwartz, G. W., Segraves, M., Shepherd, G. M. G., Siddique, T., Solla, S. A., Surmeier Jr, D. J., Swanson, G. T., Topczewski, J., Tresch, M. C., Tysseling, V. M., Vassar, R. J., Voss, J. L., Wainwright, D. A., Wang, L., Weintraub, S., Woolley, C. S. & Wright, B. A.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
5/1/17 → 4/30/22
Project: Research project
neurosciences
graduate
university
education
Molecular, anatomic, and functional characterization of midbrain dopamine neuron subtypes
Awatramani, R., Caronia-Brown, G. & Dombeck, D. A.
National Institute of Mental Health
3/22/17 → 1/31/22
Project: Research project
Dopaminergic Neurons
Mesencephalon
Dopamine
Reward
Locomotion
Behavioral Relevance of Active Dendritic Mechanisms of Integration and Plasticity
National Institute of Mental Health
5/1/16 → 4/30/19
Project: Research project
Research Output 2001 2019
Dendritic mechanisms of hippocampal place field formation
Sheffield, M. EJ. & Dombeck, D. A., Feb 1 2019, In : Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 54, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Hippocampus
Brain
Research
Place Cells
An olfactory virtual reality system for mice
Radvansky, B. A. & Dombeck, D. A., Dec 1 2018, In : Nature communications. 9, 1, 839.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
User-Computer Interface
virtual reality
Virtual reality
mice
Navigation
Evidence for a subcircuit in medial entorhinal cortex representing elapsed time during immobility
Heys, J. G. & Dombeck, D. A., Nov 1 2018, In : Nature Neuroscience. 21, 11, p. 1574-1582 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Entorhinal Cortex
Neurons
Episodic Memory
Locomotion
Mapping projections of molecularly defined dopamine neuron subtypes using intersectional genetic approaches
Poulin, J. F., Caronia-Brown, G., Hofer, C., Cui, Q., Helm, B., Ramakrishnan, C., Chan, S., Dombeck, D. A., Deisseroth, K. & Awatramani, R., Sep 1 2018, In : Nature Neuroscience. 21, 9, p. 1260-1271 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Dopaminergic Neurons
Ventral Tegmental Area
Caudate Nucleus
Putamen
Nucleus Accumbens
Ultrafast neuronal imaging of dopamine dynamics with designed genetically encoded sensors
Patriarchi, T., Cho, J. R., Merten, K., Howe, M. W., Marley, A., Xiong, W. H., Folk, R. W., Broussard, G. J., Liang, R., Jang, M. J., Zhong, H., Dombeck, D. A., von Zastrow, M., Nimmerjahn, A., Gradinaru, V., Williams, J. T. & Tian, L., Jun 29 2018, In : Science. 360, 6396, eaat4422.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Dopamine
Optogenetics
Learning
Melatonin
Neuropeptides