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Colorado State University: Fort Collins, US

2022-10-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Biomedical Sciences)
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Northwestern University: Evanston, IL, US

2017-07-01 to present | Postdoctoral Researcher (Neurobiology)
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University of Washington: Seattle, WA, US

2010-06-01 to 2011-08-01 | Research Technician (Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Oregon Health and Science University: Portland, OR, US

2011-09-01 to 2017-04-25 | PhD (Neuroscience Graduate Program)
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University of Washington: Seattle, WA, US

2006-09-01 to 2010-06-01 | BS (Neurobiology)
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Funding (3)

Cerebellar Modulation of Innate Defensive Behaviors

2021-04-01 to 2026-03-31 | Grant
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, US)
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Cerebellar Modulation of Innate Defensive Behaviors

2021-04-01 to 2023-03-31 | Grant
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, US)
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Synaptic Regulation of Innate Freezing by the Fastigial Nucleus of the Cerebellum

2018-04-01 to 2020-12-31 | Grant
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: F32NS106720
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Works (12)

Repeated presentation of visual threats drives innate fear habituation and is modulated by environmental and physiological factors

2024-10-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Jordan N. Carroll; Brent Myers; Christopher E. Vaaga
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Simple spike patterns and synaptic mechanisms encoding sensory and motor signals in Purkinje cells and the cerebellar nuclei

Neuron
2024-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0896-6273
Contributors: Spencer T. Brown; Mauricio Medina-Pizarro; Meghana Holla; Christopher E. Vaaga; Indira Raman
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Cerebellar modulation of synaptic input to freezing-related neurons in the periaqueductal gray

eLife
2020-03-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher E Vaaga; Spencer T Brown; Indira M Raman
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Preferential Targeting of Lateral Entorhinal Inputs onto Newly Integrated Granule Cells

The Journal of Neuroscience
2018-06-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicholas I. Woods; Christopher E. Vaaga; Christina Chatzi; Jaimie D. Adelson; Matthew F. Collie; Julia V. Perederiy; Kenneth R. Tovar; Gary L. Westbrook
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Expression of the potassium-chloride co-transporter, KCC2, within the avian song system

Journal of Comparative Neurology
2017 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0021-9967
Contributors: Christopher E. Vaaga; Kimberly E. Miller; Agnes L. Bodor; David J. Perkel
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Distinct temporal filters in mitral cells and external tufted cells of the olfactory bulb

The Journal of Physiology
2017-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher E. Vaaga; Gary L. Westbrook
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Distinct temporal filters in mitral cells and external tufted cells of the olfactory bulb

2017-05-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Christopher E Vaaga; Gary L Westbrook
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Presynaptic gain control by endogenous cotransmission of dopamine and GABA in the olfactory bulb

Journal of Neurophysiology
2017-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher E. Vaaga; Jordan T. Yorgason; John T. Williams; Gary L. Westbrook
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Early exposure to Aroclor 1254 in vivo disrupts the functional synaptic development of newborn hippocampal granule cells

European Journal of Neuroscience
2016 | Journal article
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Contributors: Parent, A.S.; Pinson, A.; Woods, N.; Chatzi, C.; Vaaga, C.E.; Bensen, A.; Gérard, A.; Thome, J.P.; Bourguignon, J.P.; Westbrook, G.L. et al.
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Parallel processing of afferent olfactory sensory information

The Journal of Physiology
2016-11-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Christopher E. Vaaga; Gary L. Westbrook
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Dual-transmitter neurons: functional implications of co-release and co-transmission

Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2014 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0959-4388
Contributors: Christopher E Vaaga; Maria Borisovska; Gary L Westbrook
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The IGF-derived tripeptide Gly-Pro-Glu is a weak NMDA receptor agonist

Journal of Neurophysiology
2014-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-3077
Contributors: C. E. Vaaga; K. R. Tovar; G. L. Westbrook
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