Michael Cahill, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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About the Speaker: Michael Cahill received my PhD in 2011 from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago under the mentorship of Dr. Peter Penzes. Following graduate school, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Eric Nestler at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. His postdoctoral research focused on understanding the genomic and biochemical mechanisms that mediate the effects of exposure to drugs of abuse on synapse remodeling in brain reward regions.
Dr. Cahill joined the UW-Madison in 2017, and his independent research lab in the department of Comparative Biosciences investigates the molecular and biochemical mechanisms that regulate synaptic structural and functional plasticity and assesses how aberrations in plasticity impact specific behavioral phenotypes, such as cognition, anxiety, sociability, and repetitive behaviors. Further, his lab investigates how genetic risk factors for disorders such as bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and autism impact synapse formation and stability in cortical and subcortical regions.
For Further Information, Contact: Clark Kellogg at kellogg@waisman.wisc.edu
The seminar series is funded by the John D. Wiley Conference Center Fund, the Friends of the Waisman Center and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) grant P50HD105353.
