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Kevin J Mitchell

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.  I am a graduate of the Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin (B.A., Mod. 1991) and received my Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1997), where I studied neural development with Prof. Corey Goodman.  I did postdoctoral research with Prof. Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Prof. Bill Skarnes at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University, using molecular genetics to study neural development in the mouse.  Since 2002 I have been on the faculty at Trinity College Dublin.  I have been an EMBO Young Investigator and was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College in 2009.
 

Research Interest

Mechanisms of cortical connectivity
Synaesthesia
Molecules involved in axon guidance or cell migration in the developing mouse brain
Psychophysics
Electroencephalography
Structural and functional neuroimaging