Education
AB, Lafayette College, 1989
MA, Bryn Mawr College, 1991
PhD, Wake Forest University, 1997
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Laubach has been a Assistant Fellow of the John B. Pierce Laboratory since the summer of 2001. He obtained his PhD at Wake Forrest University in 1997, working with Dr. Donald Woodward's group on new methods for simultaneously recording from multiple electrode in the brain. He also worked on the neurophysiological basis of reaction-time performance and studied neuronal ensembles in the basal ganglia. He continued that line of work as a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University from 1997-2001. There, he worked with Dr. Miguel Nicolelis' group in the Department of Neurobiology. At Duke, Dr. Laubach's research included studying the neuronal basis of motor learning, the role of distributed ensembles in tactile coding in the rodent and primate somatosensory system, and the control of robotic devices with brain signals.
Dr. Laubach's group uses neuronal ensemble recording methods to study population activity in sensory and association areas of the cerebral cortex and in the basal ganglia. The group's research is primarily focused on how networks of neurons come to represent associations between sensory stimuli and motor responses and how the capacity to learn is altered by aging. Dr. Laubach's group is also investigating the neurophysiological basis of response inhibition and the actions of drugs used to treat disorders such as Tourette Syndrome and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. Finally, the group is working on improved methods for long-term, chronic single-unit recording, methods for real-time analysis of neurophysiological data, and novel electrodes and electronic hardware for microstimulation over arrays of electrodes.
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