Aaron Milstein, PhD

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Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Department of Neurosurgery Resident Faculty at Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
PhD, University of California, San Francisco, 2009

Postdoc, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, VA, 2009 - 2016
Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, 2016 - 2020
Phone: (848) 445-9854
Email: milstein@cabm.rutgers.edu
Office location: Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), Room 238, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Milstein Lab Site

Research Interests: Neural computation and circuit mechanisms of rapid associative learning in health and disease

Current funding: National Institute of Mental Health

Selected Publications:
For complete list: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1Zi3ckjy5rVAD/bibliography/public/

Galloni AR, Samadzelkava A, Hiremath K, Oumnov R, Milstein AD. Recurrent Excitatory Feedback From Mossy Cells Enhances Sparsity and Pattern Separation in the Dentate Gyrus via Indirect Feedback Inhibition. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 2022 February; 27(826278). doi: 10.3389/fncom.2022.826278.

Milstein AD, Li Y, Bittner KC, Grienberger C, Soltesz I, Magee JC, Romani S. Bidirectional synaptic plasticity rapidly modifies hippocampal representations. Elife. 2021 Dec 9;10. doi: 10.7554/eLife.73046. PubMed PMID: 34882093; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8776257.

Milstein AD, Tran S, Ng G, Soltesz I. Offline memory replay in recurrent neuronal networks emerges from constraints on online dynamics. bioRxiv. 2021 October. doi: 10.1101/2021.10.27.466186.

Bittner KC, Milstein AD, Grienberger C, Romani S, Magee JC. Behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity underlies CA1 place fields. Science. 2017 Sep 8;357(6355):1033-1036. doi: 10.1126/science.aan3846. PubMed PMID: 28883072; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7289271.