Simon Gosgnach

Biography

Gosgnach is a professor 3-020D Katz Building University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2E1. Simon.

Research Interest

Neural networks known as Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) are able to produce functional motor outputs in the absence of sensory input. By investigating the structure and function of these CPGs we can learn how the nervous system produces essential behaviors such as breathing, swallowing, chewing, and walking. Work in my lab is focussed on studying the CPG for walking (i.e. locomotion). We are using a multidisciplinary approach involving molecular genetics, histology and electrophysiology to determine how the neural networks that produce locomotor behaviour are assembled during development and how they are activated to produce functional locomotor outputs. Selected Awards Health Scholar, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, 2007 New Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2007 Barbara Turnbull Award for Spinal Cord Research, 2011.