Daniel A. Dombeck PhD

Daniel Dombeck, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and AT&T Research Fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University. He received his BSc in physics at The University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University.

The Dombeck Lab aims to establish the changes that take place in the brain during memory formation and the specific mechanisms that allow for memory storage and recall. We develop virtual reality systems and high-resolution, laser-based imaging techniques that provide us with the ability to image into the brains of mice while they learn to solve virtual mazes. These methods are generating our first real-time views of the changes in both neuron activity patterns and morphology in the specific neurons that are forming, storing, and maintaining the memories of the animal’s virtual reality experience.