Aleena Garner

Aleena Garner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Garner Lab Website

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Aleena Garner, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Email: aleena_garner@hms.harvard.edu
Website: Garner Lab website – more information about Aleena Garner’s research (opens in a new tab)

The Aim

The Garner Lab studies how memories and expectations shape perception.

The Impact

Our brains use memories and expectations to interpret what we sense. This is what allows us to react to a siren before we have fully registered the sound. But these same interpretive processes can also misfire, contributing to conditions like anxiety, PTSD, and learning or sensory disorders. By studying how perception works in everyday life, the Garner Lab aims to understand both how the brain makes sense of the world and what happens when that process breaks down.

A Closer Look

Publications View
A cortical circuit for audio-visual predictions.
Authors: Authors: Garner AR, Keller GB.
Nat Neurosci
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Inferring cortical function in the mouse visual system through large-scale systems neuroscience.
Authors: Authors: Hawrylycz M, Anastassiou C, Arkhipov A, Berg J, Buice M, Cain N, Gouwens NW, Gratiy S, Iyer R, Lee JH, Mihalas S, Mitelut C, Olsen S, Reid RC, Teeter C, de Vries S, Waters J, Zeng H, Koch C.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Transgenic mice for intersectional targeting of neural sensors and effectors with high specificity and performance.
Authors: Authors: Madisen L, Garner AR, Shimaoka D, Chuong AS, Klapoetke NC, Li L, van der Bourg A, Niino Y, Egolf L, Monetti C, Gu H, Mills M, Cheng A, Tasic B, Nguyen TN, Sunkin SM, Benucci A, Nagy A, Miyawaki A, Helmchen F, Empson RM, Knöpfel T, Boyden ES, Reid RC, Carandini M, Zeng H.
Neuron
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New approaches to neural circuits in behavior.
Authors: Authors: Garner A, Mayford M.
Learn Mem
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Generation of a synthetic memory trace.
Authors: Authors: Garner AR, Rowland DC, Hwang SY, Baumgaertel K, Roth BL, Kentros C, Mayford M.
Science
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A survey of new temperature-sensitive, embryonic-lethal mutations in C. elegans: 24 alleles of thirteen genes.
Authors: Authors: O'Rourke SM, Carter C, Carter L, Christensen SN, Jones MP, Nash B, Price MH, Turnbull DW, Garner AR, Hamill DR, Osterberg VR, Lyczak R, Madison EE, Nguyen MH, Sandberg NA, Sedghi N, Willis JH, Yochem J, Johnson EA, Bowerman B.
PLoS One
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