Dr. Marshall Shuler

Biography

Marshall Hussain Shuler is an Associate Professor in the Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying reward-dependent learning and the adaptive behaviors that are shaped by environmental stimuli. He investigates how neural systems convey reward value and how synaptic efficacy is modified during learning processes related to stimulus-action associations. Dr. Shuler has notably contributed to the understanding of reward-timing activity in the primary visual cortex (V1), demonstrating that the pairing of visual stimuli with subsequent rewards generates unique activity patterns in V1. His innovative research employs an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing multi-site neural recordings and viral-mediated gene transfer to explore these complex interactions. Before his appointment at Johns Hopkins in 2008, he completed post-doctoral research under Dr. Mark Bear at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT as a Howard Hughes fellow. Dr. Shuler holds a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Duke University and a B.A. in Neuroscience from the University of Virginia, where he graduated with distinction and participated in the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship program.

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