Person
Jesuthasan, Suresh
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Biography and Research Interest
1990 B. Sc. (Electrical Engineering) Stanford University
1994 D. Phil. (Zoology), Oxford University with Julian Lewis and Phil Ingham
1995-1999 Post doc with Friedrich Bonhoeffer, MPI Tuebingen.
1999 - present Group Leader
Research Interests
I am interested in the neural basis of emotion, and in the broader question of what drives human behavior. An experimentally tractable emotion is fear, as it is easily perceived in other organisms. A suite of behaviors characterizes the state of fear, and these can be measured objectively.
There are a number of projects in the lab aimed at understanding how different levels of fear are generated. Most projects examine innate fear responses, and current experiments in the lab focus on mechanisms by which immune signals alter emotion circuits.
1994 D. Phil. (Zoology), Oxford University with Julian Lewis and Phil Ingham
1995-1999 Post doc with Friedrich Bonhoeffer, MPI Tuebingen.
1999 - present Group Leader
Research Interests
I am interested in the neural basis of emotion, and in the broader question of what drives human behavior. An experimentally tractable emotion is fear, as it is easily perceived in other organisms. A suite of behaviors characterizes the state of fear, and these can be measured objectively.
There are a number of projects in the lab aimed at understanding how different levels of fear are generated. Most projects examine innate fear responses, and current experiments in the lab focus on mechanisms by which immune signals alter emotion circuits.
Non-Zebrafish Publications