Kerlin Lab
Neuroscience | University of Minnesota

Our Research

Publications

Kerlin A, Mohar B, Flickinger D, MacLennan BJ, Dean M, Davis C, Spruston N, Svoboda K (2019) Functional clustering of dendritic activity during decision-making. eLife 2019;8:e46966;

Dana H, Sun Y, Mohar B, Hulse BK, Kerlin AM, Hasseman JP, Tsegaye G, Tsang A, Wong A, Patel R, Macklin JJ, Chen Y, Konnerth A, Jayaraman V, Looger LL, Schreiter ER, Svoboda K & Kim DS (2019) High-performance calcium sensors for imaging activity in neuronal populations and microcompartments Nature Methods. 16:649–657

Liu R, Sum W, Liang Y, Kerlin A, Bierfeld J, Seelig J, Wilson D, Scholl B, Mohar B, Tanimoto M, Koyama M, Fitzpatrick D, Orger M & Ji N (2017) Video-rate volumetric functional imaging of the brain at synaptic resolution. Nature Neuroscience. 20:620-628.

Liu R, Milkie DE, Kerlin A, MacLennan B & Ji N (2014) Direct phase measurement in zonal wavefront reconstruction using multidither coherent optical adaptive technique. Optics Express. 22:1619-28.

Andermann ML, Kerlin AM, Roumis DK, Glickfeld LL & Reid RC (2011) Functional specialization of mouse higher visual cortical areas. Neuron. 72:1025-1039.

Bock DD, Allen Lee WC, Kerlin AM, Andermann ML, Hood G, Wetzel AW, Yurgenson S, Soucy ER, Kim HS & Reid RC (2011) Network anatomy and in vivo physiology of a group of visual cortical neurons. Nature. 471:177-182.

Kerlin AM, Andermann ML, Berezovskii VK & Reid RC (2010) Broadly tuned response properties of diverse inhibitory neuron subtypes in mouse visual cortex. Neuron. 67:858-71.

Members

**Aaron Kerlin**
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor

**Google Scholar**

**Benjamin Dougen**
Researcher

**Google Scholar**

**Jackson Scheib**
Ph.D. Student

**Google Scholar**

**Deano Farinella**
Optical Engineer

**Google Scholar**

**Harishankar Jayakumar**
Optical Engineer

**Google Scholar**

UNDERGRADUATES

Gabriella Bjellos- Undergraduate Researcher

Dante Rogers- Undergraduate Researcher

Jarod Davis- Undergraduate Researcher

Huan Tran- Undergraduate Researcher

Angela Kim- Undergraduate Researcher

Ravi Dantuluri- High School Honors Student

Tien Dinh- Undergraduate Researcher

News

Jackson Joins the Lab

Jackson Scheib has officially joined our lab to work on his Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Welcome aboard! ...
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July 20, 2020 / Uncategorized

Kerlin Lab Awarded the Whitehall Foundation Grant for Control of Motor Learning by Dendritic Computations Project

June 1, 2020 / Uncategorized

Savannah joins the lab

We are happy to announce Savannah Bliese, Psychology and Neuroscience BS, University of Ohio - Miami, is joining the lab ...
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December 17, 2019 / Lab Updates

Press release on Aaron’s discoveries at Janelia

U of M Researcher Discovers Subcellular Computations Within the Brain During Decision-Making New research suggests that during decision-making, neurons in ...
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November 15, 2019 / Lab Updates

First Image of Dendritic Spines

Aaron getting the scope ready for imaging ...
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August 27, 2019 / Lab Updates

Aaron KerlinFollow

Aaron Kerlin @KerlinAaron·

7 Aug

Interested in how computations in dendrites control motor learning? Join our lab! Fully-funded postdoc position to use our novel tools for monitoring and manipulating dendritic activity during behavior. https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/336082

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Jan Zimmermann, PhD @_janzimmermann_·

23 May

Happy to share our newest preprint. We demonstrate resting state fMRI at the highest field strength (10.5T) ever performed in macaques: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.109595v1
Why so many Teslas you say? Follow along if you like:

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Rochefort_lab @RochefortLab·

10 Apr

Very happy to announce that our paper is out in Current Biology: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30356-0
Special thanks to Janelle Pakan who co-supervised this study and Julia Henschke, @KatsanevakiD, Evelyn Dylda, Nathalie Dupuy, @TheoklitosA and Stephen Currie for their great work! 👏👏

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Reto Fiolka @RetoPaul·

29 Mar

We present a new spin on extended depth of focusing in 2 photon microscopy. We use the phase mask form
@FourierPower in reverse, and with ultrafast laser pulses instead of fluorescence: simple, high light-throughput, achromatic and pulse multiplexing.
https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.012260v1

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Join our team

The Kerlin Lab is recruiting Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Research Technicians interested in advanced imaging techniques and the neurobiology of learning! We are seeking creative individuals with both technical (e.g., engineering, computer science) and biological interests. Multiple fully funded positions are available. Interested individuals are encouraged to send a CV to info@kerlinlab.org.

Contact us

info@kerlinlab.org

The Kerlin Lab is a member of the University of Minnesota’s Medical Discovery Team for Optical Imaging and Brain Science, the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, and the Neuroscience Department in Jackson Hall.

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