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**

Mitchell Head
Post-Doctoral Researcher

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

Kerlin lab moves to our new lab space at the CMRR

We're excited to announce we've moved out of Jackson Hall and into our new space at the Center for Magnetic ...
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February 17, 2021 / Uncategorized

Mitchell Head joins the lab as a post-doctoral researcher

Coming from the University of Waikato, Mitchell Head has joined us and arrived in America. Welcome aboard! ...
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January 8, 2021 / Uncategorized

Kerlin Lab awarded the Wallin Neuroscience Discovery Award

This award will support our general research activities, way to go! The purpose of the Fund is to provide support ...
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November 17, 2020 / Uncategorized

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

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Takaki Komiyama @takaki_komiyama·

28 Feb

Autonomous Computing Materials https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c09556

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24 Jan

Circuit organization of the excitatory sensorimotor loop through hand/forelimb S1 and M1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427843v1

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Kaspar Podgorski @PodgorskiLab·

19 Jan

For the past 5 years @HHMIJanelia, my lab has worked on tools to image synaptic activity. 2021 might be the year it really comes together. Announcement 1: Our improved iGluSnFRs are great! These are minis /w TTX. Very proud of @abhi_aggarwal and team. We're sharing reagents!

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Boaz Mohar @boazmohar·

11 Jan

I am presenting #SfNConnectome21 today 13:30EST, if you are interested in a new way we (@svoboda314 @nspruston & @rhodamine110) have developed to look at in-vivo protein turnover in mice brains look us up P377.01 (https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/Connectome2021/fsPopup.asp?efp=WElZWVlaV1MxMzg4NQ&PosterID=339657&rnd=0.8475226&mode=posterinfo)

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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

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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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