Research & interests
The scientific questions that draw him in. Each area below is an interest he is building toward, not a finished study.
Key concepts
Questions the field is asking
- Why does adult heart muscle regenerate so poorly after injury?
- How do mechanical forces on vessel walls shape the development of atherosclerosis?
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Key concepts
Questions the field is asking
- How does the late maturation of the prefrontal cortex influence decision-making in adolescence?
- What balance of stability and plasticity lets a brain keep learning without losing what it knows?
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Questions the field is asking
- How do cells with identical DNA become heart, nerve or liver cells?
- Which chromosomal changes can be seen in a karyotype, and which require molecular methods?
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Questions the field is asking
- How large must a study be before its result can be trusted?
- When does a simple model explain biology better than a complicated one?
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- How much detail does a synapse model need to reproduce real learning behaviour?
- How do changes in synaptic strength combine into a stable memory?
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Questions the field is asking
- Which neural mechanisms of vocal learning are shared between songbirds and humans?
- How does the environment shape the signals a species evolves to use?
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