The Williamson Lab studies astrocyte biology across development, cognition, and disease.

Welcome! We study the synaptic and circuit bases for motor control and motor learning. The brain’s ability to learn and form new memories relies on the precise reorganization of neuronal circuits, inv...

Welcome! We study the cellular interactions between neurons and oligodendrocytes, which produce myelin in the central nervous system. Myelination - the process by which oligodendrocytes ensheath neuro...

Faculty studying mechanisms underlying normal nervous system function and/or how these mechanisms and interactions are affected by disease or injury

Stroke is a major cause of disability. Astrocytes respond to stroke in a gradated manner, but details of that response and its consequences for tissue…

The biological mechanisms of rehabilitation after stroke are not fully understood. Here authors identify parvalbumin interneurons as a key mediator of rehabilitation-induced stroke recovery and a drug...

Inferring cellular and molecular dynamics of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions from postmortem tissue collected decades after onset is challenging. Using magnetic resonance image (MRI)–guided spatiotemp...

Plasmid AAV-GfaABC1D-Cre-4x6T from Dr. Stanley Thomas Carmichael's lab contains the insert Cre and is published in Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 16;14(1):7426. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42746-w. This plasmid is...