The Denman Lab is located on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora Colorado and the Denver Metropolitan area and offers proximity the Front Range and easy access to the Rockies. The Denman lab is committed to growing diversity in science and creating an inclusive and supportive working environment.
Daniel Denman
PI. Dan was previously a Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, where he worked on development and testing of high-density extracellular electrophysiology methods, in service of studying the population statistics and circuit interactions that underlie visual representation in the mouse early visual system. Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania, in the lab of Diego Contreras. Even longer ago than that he began his journey into experimental neuroscience, and the statistics of visual representations, working with Rowland Taylor (then at OHSU) as an undergraduate at Reed College.
Kim Gagnon
Neuroscience PhD Candidate (co-Advised with Cristin Welle). Kim is studying motor cortex activity during reaching behaviors, and how it is modulated, particularly by acetylcholine.
Nick Garcia
PhD Student, Computational Bioscience Program. Nick is developing methods to extract neural information from high-density electrophysiological recordings, including in the context of intracranial electrical stimulation.
Spencer Hanson
Professional Research Assistant, with Poleg-Polsky and Felsen labs. Spencer is working on computational infrastructure and computational approaches for novel quantification of neural data, particularly large-scale extracellular electrophysiology data.
Jordan Hickman
MD-PhD Candidate Jordan is studying the biophysics of electrical stimulation from multiple angles and across scales. His work utilizes high-density electrophysiology as well as imaging techniques.
Eashan Sahai
Professional Research Assistant. Eashan is working on understanding the biophysics and impacts of electrical stimulation, including activity capture experiments and design of novel hardware for control of electrical stimulation.
Juan Santiago-Moreno
MD-PhD Candidate Juan earned his BS and MS degrees from the University of Florida where he worked in the lab of Gordon S. Mitchell studying neuroplasticity following spinal cord injury. He moved to Colorado in 2018 to begin pursuing his MD/PhD, and joined the Denman lab in August 2020.
Juan is using mutliple Neuropixels to study the neural representation of color in the early visual system.
Alumni
Katie Casey
Undergraduate student, University of Colorado Denver. Katie is training mice to perform perceptually ambiguous visual discrimination tasks and recording from ensembles of neurons across the visual system while they do so.
Matt Sergison
Fall 2020 Neuroscience Rotation Student
Michael Stockton
Fall 2021 Neuroscience Rotation Student.
Beth Stubblefield
Research Associate. Currently a Lecturing Professor at University of Colorado Boulder.
Anne Claire Tangen
2022 BRAiN Summer Student. Anne Claire is an undergraduate at Colorado State University intersted in the mechanisms of cognition and behavior. Currently a post-bac at NIH.
Grant Hughes
Professional Research Assistant. Grant was a jack-of-all-trades in the lab. Currently a PhD student at the University of Colorado.
Maham Haq
Fall 2022 Neuroscience Rotation Student, with Person Lab, Maham is studying the synchrony of populations of Purkinje neurons.