Emerson Frazier Harkin (he/him)
Department Computational Neuroscience
Main Focus
What does serotonin do in the brain? My work combines computational modeling and analysis of neural data in an effort to understand what activates serotonin neurons and what this means for animal behaviour and learning.
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. in neuroscience, University of Ottawa
Neural Coding Lab led by Richard Naud
Thesis: Making Sense of Serotonin Through Spike Frequency Adaptation
M.Sc. in neuroscience, University of Ottawa
Research group of Jean-Claude Béïque
Thesis: A Simplified Serotonin Neuron Model
B.Sc. hon. in biomedical science, summa cum laude, University of Ottawa