Janelle Pakan
Research Fellow
INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
2014 – present: Marie Curie Intra-European Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, UK. Laboratory of Dr. Nathalie Rochefort. 2010 – 2013: NSERC/IRCSET Post-Doctoral Fellow, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. Laboratory of Prof. Kieran McDermott. 2009 – 2010: NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada. Laboratory of Prof. Brian MacVicar. 2004 – 2009: PhD in Neuroscience. University of Alberta, Centre for Neuroscience, Canada. Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Douglas Wylie. 1999 – 2003: B.Sc. Psychology and Biological Sciences. University of Alberta, Canada.
Research Interest
cell-type specific responses of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the primary visual cortex.
Publications
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Pakan, J.M.P.*, Graham, D.J.*, and Wylie, D.R. (2014) Climbing Fibre Projections in Relation to Zebrin Stripes in the Ventral Uvula in Pigeons. Journal of Comparative Neurology 522(16):3629-43.
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Dmitriev, R.I., Borisov, S.M., Kondrashina, A.V., Pakan, J.M.P., Anilkumar, U., Prehn, J.H.M., Zhdanov, A.V., McDermott, K.W., Klimsnt, I., Papkovsky, D.B. (2015). Imaging oxygen in neural cell and tissue models by means of anionic cell-permeable phosphorescent nanoparticles. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 72(2):367-81.
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Pakan, J.M.P, Lowe S.C., Dylda E., Keemink S.W., Currie, S.P., Coutts C.A. and Rochefort N.L. (2016). Behavioural state modulation of inhibition is context-dependent and cell-type specific in mouse V1. Elife, 5: e14985.
