Mcdougal Lab
Principal Investigator: Robert A. Mcdougal
Institution: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: ✅ Hiring Postdocs
Research Focus
Project Summary Computational neuroscience has proved itself to be a powerful companion to experimental studies; it provides tools to assess theories of neural function and to infer dynamics across scales. This continuing project will extend the open-source NEURON simulator, a leading platform in computational neuroscience, to provide faster simulations, to support more types of models, and to interoperate with more tools and data sources. The neuroscience community has used NEURON to build many new tools and neural models over its 30+ year history; over 2800 papers have reported work performed in NEURON (well over 100 in the last year). The NEURON project seeks to increase power and ease-of-use for computational neuroscience models. NEURON supports broad multiscale biophysical research to provide understanding of activity between, among and within scales from cytoplasmic and extracellular molecules, through ion channels, synapses, spines, dendrites, neurons, and local and wide-area networks. It is used directly by experimentalists and students with little or no programming experience, providing direct mappings to familiar biological concepts through GUIs (several alternatives). It…
Active NIH Awards
- 5R01NS011613-49: Computer Methods for Physiological Problems (2026)
- 5R01NS011613-48: Computer Methods for Physiological Problems (2025)
- 5R01NS011613-47: Computer Methods for Physiological Problems (2024)
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