Core Director
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2338 PBDB

Shane Heiney received his PhD in Neuroscience from Washington University in St Louis and did postdoctoral work with Javier Medina at the University of Pennsylvania and Baylor College of Medicine. His research focuses on the role of the cerebellum in skilled movements, with a particular focus on local circuit processing within the cerebellum and circuit interactions of the cerebellum with midbrain and forebrain regions. Dr. Heiney has expertise in non-human primate and rodent behavior, single unit in vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics, and various microscopy/imaging techniques.