Adaptive Decisions Lab joins Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma
Professor Abhi Banerjee and his Lab have joined the Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma at the Blizard Institute. Abhi is PI of the Adaptive Decisions Lab and a Professor of Neuroscience. His lab is currently working on the flexibility of learning, decision-making and its dysfunctions in neurological disorders.
Professor Abhi Banerjee
Abhi's lab is currently working on the flexibility of learning, decision-making and its dysfunctions in neurological disorders. He is also an affiliate at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (ETH-Zürich), the Pharmacology Department (University of Oxford), and the Neuroscience Department (University of Copenhagen).
Abhi did his undergraduate degree at Presidency College, Calcutta and became interested in Neuroscience while working in Professor Upi Bhalla’s lab at NCBS Bangalore, India. He did his D.Phil. in Physiology at the University of Oxford as a Felix Scholar in the laboratory of Professor Ole Paulsen. Abhi studied spike timing-dependent learning rules and the roles of NMDA receptors in cortical development and plasticity. During his postdoctoral training, Abhi worked as a Simons Foundation Fellow at MIT with Professor Mriganka Sur, focusing on inhibitory mechanisms in cortical plasticity. Furthermore, he investigated cellular and circuit mechanisms of inhibitory dysfunctions in Rett syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder in the autism spectrum. During his time at MIT, he was also an Instructor at the Department of Biology and a Teaching Fellow in Neurobiology at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. He then moved to the University of Zürich as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and NARSAD Young Investigator to work with Professor Fritjof Helmchen, where he developed assays to study flexibility of learning and prefrontal-sensory interactions that guide such ability.
A warm welcome to Abhi and his group!