Randy Bruno, PhD
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Program:
Neurobiology
Graduated:
12/2002
Mentor:
Dr. Daniel Simons
Thesis:
Thalamocortical Connectivity and Functional Organization of Layer IV Circuitry
Previous Institutions Attended:
Carnegie Mellon University, BS in Cognitive Science
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I have just accepted a faculty position at Columbia University in the Doctoral Program for Neurobiology and Behavior. My new faculty profile is available here. Before joining Columbia as a faculty member, I was a postdoctoral researcher with Bert Sakmann (winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Medicine) at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. In the Sakmann lab I studied the anatomy and physiology of thalamocortical and corticocortical synapses in the intact brain.
Recent Publications:
Bruno RM and Sakmann B. (2006) Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses. Science 312: 1622-7.
Publications while a graduate student at Pitt:
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