Education: 

B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Administrative Responsibilities:

University of the Health Sciences Administrative Responsibilities:

President, Birmingham Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience

 Secondary Appointments:

Personal:

Scholarly Activity:

VIS450/VIS550 Electronics for Biologists - An advanced undergraduate/graduate course with the aim of making sure that biologists performing electrophysiological experiments actually know what ohm's law is, why you should use a high input-impedance amplifier in electrophysiology and which end of a soldering iron to hold on to.

VIS727 Systems Neuroscience Journal Club - graduate systems neuroscience journal club.

VIS747 Central Visual Mechanisms I - An intensive 8-week "module" designed for students in the vision science program and general neuroscience/neurobiology, covers the central visual pathways, an emphasis on primates and links between non-human primates and humans. 

Research -

The research aim in Dr. Gawne's lab is to determine how the nervous system codes and processes information. The primary method used is recording from single neurons and small groups of single neurons in the visual system, primarily the visual cortical system but also in thalamus and retina. There are also ongoing projects using recording of the visual evoked potential in human subjects to look for correlates of the results found with single unit recording.  Dr. Gawne makes heavy use of computational and engineering techniques in this research.  For more information please check out the personal web site link below.

Additional Information:

Personal Web Site