Caroline Geisler Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Rutgers University 197 University Avenue Newark, NJ 07102 USA office: room 301 phone: (973) 353-3649 fax: (973) 353-1820 email: geislerc @ rutgers . edu

Research Interests

My research interest is to understand the computations of the brain through studying oscillations. I focus mainly onto hippocampal rhythms like theta, gamma and sharp wave-ripples. I belive that understanding the mechanism of those oscillations can give insight into the circuitry and network dynamics, and ultimately into how neural activity patterns give rise to behavior.

CV

2004 -	Postdoctoral Associate in the lab of György Buzsáki at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, NJ
2004	PhD in Physics, Brandeis University, USA. Thesis: The interplay between intrinsic cell properties and synaptic dynamics in the generation of oscillations in cortical network models. Advisor: Xiao-Jing Wang
1998	Diplom (Master) in Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Thesis: A Calculation of the Magnetic Susceptibility for Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems with Feynman's Perturbation Theory. Advisor: Norbert Grewe

Publications

Journal Articles: H. Köndgen, C. Geisler, S. Fusi, X.-J. Wang, H.-R. Lüscher and M. Giugliano (2008): "The dynamical response properties of neocortical neurons to time-varying noisy inputs in vitro", Cerebral Cortex 18:2086-97   [Download PDF]   [Download Supplemantary Material] C. Geisler, D. Robbe, M. Zugaro, A. Sirota and G. Buzsáki (2007): "Hippocampal place cell assemblies are speed-controlled oscillators", PNAS 104: 8149-8154   [Download PDF] C. Geisler, N. Brunel and X.-J. Wang (2005): "Contributions of intrinsic membrane dynamics to fast network oscillations", J. Neurophys. 94: 4344-4361   [Download PDF] G. Buzsáki, C. Geisler, D. A. Henze and X.-J. Wang (2004): "Interneuron Diversity series: Circuit complexity and axon wiring economy of cortical interneurons", TINS 27: 186-193.   [Download PDF]

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