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Adil Khan

Dr Adil Khan PhD

Senior Lecturer

Research interests

  • Neuroscience

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Biography

My lab studies the neural circuit basis of cognition. Cognition is a hallmark of intelligent behaviour, and includes functions such as working memory, decision making and attentional switching. While these phenomena have been traditionally studied in humans and primates, my lab has developed, and studies sophisticated cognitive tasks in mice and rats, allowing us to measure and manipulate the neural circuits underlying cognition down to sub-cellular resolution. We study how networks of diverse excitatory and inhibitory neurons compare predictions with reality to compute prediction-errors, and how such prediction-errors in prefrontal cortex drive animals to rapidly update their internal models of the world. To understand these phenomena, my lab combines chronic in-vivo two-photon calcium imaging of multiple cell classes, targeted optogenetic manipulations, viral-vector based circuit mapping, and quantitative mouse behavioural assays.

Please see my Research Staff Profile for more detail.

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Key Collaborators:

  • Professor Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London
  • Dr Aditya Gilra, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam
  • Dr Katharina Wilmes, Univeristy of Bern
  • Dr Angus Chadwick, University of Edinburgh

 

News

Dr Adil Khan receives £3.44 million Wellcome Career Development Award

The funding supports his project “Neural circuit basis of flexible behaviour” over an 8-year period.

Human brain slice

News

Dr Adil Khan receives £3.44 million Wellcome Career Development Award

The funding supports his project “Neural circuit basis of flexible behaviour” over an 8-year period.

Human brain slice