Thomas A. Cleland

The paper investigates the dynamical mechanisms of gamma oscillations in the olfactory bulb of mice, showing they arise from coupled columnar oscillators that enable coherent network activity.

The paper investigates how gamma oscillations in the olfactory bulb encode odor information through spike timing dynamics using optogenetic stimulation.

The paper develops a physicochemical model of odor sampling that simulates ligand-receptor interactions and evaluates their impact on odor discrimination sensitivity.

This study shows that the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) is critical for context-dependent odor learning, while ventral hippocampus (vHC) lesions affect both olfactory and texture context learning.