Understanding Memory in the Climer Lab
The Climer lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks to understand the neurobiological events that underlie memory.
What We Do
Exploring the neurobiological events that underlie memory
Memory is essential for survival and quality of life, but the cellular and circuit events that underlie memory remain poorly understood.
The Climer Lab uses cutting edge techniques to tease apart these events and to learn about how our memories are stored, how they change over time, and ultimately, how they are forgotten.
Two-Photon Imaging
By combining calcium imaging with glutamate imaging, we explore the input-output functions of hippocampal neurons over the lifetime of memory.
Virtual Reality
Using virtual reality we create environments impossible in the real world and challenge animals’ memory capabilities to learn more about how memory functions.
Computational Neuroscience
We use computational approaches to examine the contents of the messages being sent and received by these neurons to better understand the information processing going on in the spatial memory centers of the brain.
About
Meet Jason Climer
I began my studies of the spatial memory by studying the fine timing of firing of neurons in the lab of Michael Hasselmo at Boston University. Most recently, I developed novel optical approaches as a postdoc in the lab of Daniel Dombeck at Northwestern University.
I am thrilled to be starting a research group at UIUC!
Openings
Join the Climer Lab
Seeking inquisitive graduate students and postdocs.
I am seeking growing scientists looking to use diverse methods to understand the brain at the subcellular, cellular, and population levels using virtual reality, two-photon imaging and computational approaches.
Candidates should be curious, ready for interdisciplinary study, and excited to learn more about the brain.
Sound like you?
