Introduction:

I am currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Neurobiology Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. I am working with Dr. Ehud Kaplan in the Laboratory of  Visual Neuroscience  and Applied Mathematics.   The focus of my research is on top/down information processing, specifically the role of reciprocal connections in cortical dynamics and “sensory perception”.  My dissertation explores the effect of these cortical connections on receptive field parameters and functional architecture of the visual nervous system by similateously recording the intrinsic optical signals and extracellular signals of the primary visual cortex, V1. 

Publications:

Sornborger, A., Sailstad, C., Kaplan, E., Knight, B., & Sirovich, L. (2001)   Spatio-temporal analysis of optical imaging data.  NeuroImage, (submitted).

Hof, P. R., Ungerleider, L. G., Webster, M. J., Gattass, R., Adams, M. M., Sailstad, C. A., Morrison, J. H. (1996) Neurofilament protein is differentially distributed in subpopulations of corticocortical projection neurons in the Macaque monkey visual pathways. J. Comp. Neuro. 376(1), 112-27.

Berg, K. A., Clarke, W. P., Sailstad, C., Saltzman, A., & Maayani, S. (1994) Signal transduction differences between 5-Hydroxytryptamine 2A and type 2C receptor systems. Mol. Pharm. 46, 477-484.

Abstracts:

C. A. Sailstad, L. Sirovich, and E.Kaplan, (2000)   Functional architecture of cat primary visual cortex:  Role of descending pathway from superfical and deep layers of area 18. Society of Neuroscience Abstracts,  26(1), 139.

C. A. Sailstad, B. Knight, L. Sirovich, and E. Kaplan, (2000) Functional organization of the cat primary visual cortex: Role of the descending pathway from area 18. ARVO Abstracts, 264, S51.

C. A. Sailstad, B. Knight, L. Sirovich, and E. Kaplan, (1999) Functional architecture of the cat primary visual cortex :  The role of the descending pathway from area 18. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25(2), 1424.

Morrison, J. H., Podos, S. M., Vickers, J. C., Wang, R. F., Schumer, R. S., Sailstad, C.A. & Hof P. R., (1995)  Selective vulnerability of neuronal subsets in subcortical structures of monkeys with experimental glaucoma. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 21(1), 658.

Hof, P. R., Ungerleider, L. G., Webster, M. J., Gattass, R., Adams, M., Sailstad, C. A., & Morrision, J. H., (1995)  Forward and feedback corticocortical projection in the monkey visual system display differential neurochemical characteristic. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 21(2), 904.

Hof, P. R., Wang, R. F., Sailstad, C.A., Schumer, R. A., Podos, S. M., & Morrison, J. H., (1995) Quantitative analysis of vulnerable subsets of thalamic and tectal neurons in experimental Glaucoma. ARVO Abstracts, 36(4), S964.

Hof, P. R, Sailstad, C. A., Archin, N., Edwards, A. M., Janssen, W.G.M, & Morrison, J. H., (1994) Distribution of the calcium-binding proteins Parvalbumin, Calbindin, and Calretinin in the Macaque monkey visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20(2), 1740.

Maayani, S., Berg, K. A., Sailstad, C. A., & Saltzman, A., (1993) Transfected human 5-HT1C, but not 5-HT2,    receptors modulate naturally expressed 5-HT1B-like receptor function in CHO cells. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 19(2), 157.

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