Our services and projects

Welcome to the Parker Lab

We use cutting-edge approaches to understand the function of neural circuits and their dysfunction in disease. Our goal is to leverage this understanding to develop better treatments for neurologic and psychiatric diseases.

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Who We Are

About Us

We are a multidisciplinary team tackling the most challenging questions in translational neuroscience research. To do this, we combine state-of-the art in vivo imaging tools with behavior and neuropharmacology. The explicitness of our effort is unique, and we invite you to learn more about our work. 

In Vivo Imaging

Head-mounted miniature microscopes

Head-fixed two-photon imaging

Fiber photometry

Behavior

Operant Conditioning

Hallucination-Like Auditory Perception (HALIP)

Drug Self-Administration

Conditioned Place Preference

Spatial Working Memory

Sensorimotor Gating

Openfield

Head-Fixed Behavior

Animal Models

Chemogenetic and Optogenetic Manipulations of Neural Circuits With Simultaneous Imaging

Intersectional Genetic Approaches to Image or Manipulate Specific Cell-Subtypes

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Lab Members

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Jones Parker, PhD

Principal Investigator

Eva Potjer

Undergraduate Student

Xunhui (Dossie) Wu, MS

Graduate Student (NUIN)

Justin Anair, BS

Graduate Student (NUIN)

Ben Yang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Seongsik Yun, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Justin Saunders, MD, PhD

Research Track Psychiatry Resident

Allison Kane

Research Technologist

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS