Michael Kohl
University Research Lecturer
Biography
Michael Kohl received a B.Sc in Neuroscience (2005) from University College London, and, as part of the Wellcome Trust Oxford Ion Channel Initiative, a D.Phil in Physiology (2009) from the University of Oxford. He carried out his postdoctoral studies at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University (2010-2011) and the University of California, Berkeley (2012-2013). He became an Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in 2013 and University Research Lecturer in 2018. He focuses on unravelling fundamental neural coding principles.
Research Summary
Michael's key research interest is information encoding in the brain. He integrates studies on learning & memory in the hippocampus with research into information processing in the sensory cortices.
Key publications
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Left-right dissociation of hippocampal memory processes in mice.
Journal article
Shipton OA. et al, (2014), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111, 15238 - 15243
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Hemisphere-specific optogenetic stimulation reveals left-right asymmetry of hippocampal plasticity.
Journal article
Kohl MM. et al, (2011), Nat Neurosci, 14, 1413 - 1415
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Presynaptic induction and expression of timing-dependent long-term depression demonstrated by compartment-specific photorelease of a use-dependent NMDA receptor antagonist.
Journal article
Rodríguez-Moreno A. et al, (2011), J Neurosci, 31, 8564 - 8569
Recent publications
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Contribution of Interneuron Subtype-Specific GABAergic Signaling to Emergent Sensory Processing in Mouse Somatosensory Whisker Barrel Cortex.
Journal article
Baruchin LJ. et al, (2022), Cereb Cortex, 32, 2538 - 2554
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Open-source, Python-based, hardware and software for controlling behavioural neuroscience experiments.
Journal article
Akam T. et al, (2022), Elife, 11
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Dissociation of somatostatin and parvalbumin interneurons circuit dysfunctions underlying hippocampal theta and gamma oscillations impaired by amyloid β oligomers in vivo
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Chung H. et al, (2020), Brain Structure and Function
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Optogenetic activation of parvalbumin and somatostatin interneurons selectively restores theta-nested gamma oscillations and oscillation-induced spike timing-dependent long-term potentiation impaired by amyloid β oligomers.
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Park K. et al, (2020), BMC Biol, 18
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Neural coding principles of sensory perception and learning revealed by multiplane 2-photon imaging
Conference paper
Kohl MM., (2019), ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA, 227