The Bonthuis lab is honored to collaborate and work with UIUC Professors David Zhao (Statistics), Howard Gritton (Comparative Biosciences), Yuri Vlasov (Electrical and Computing Engineering), Sergei Maslow (Center for AI Modeling), Brad Sutton (Bioengineering), Jozien Goenseand (psychology and bioengineering) Georgia Tech Professor Saurabh Sin (biomedical engineering) on investigating what biological mechanisms underlie resilience to severe trauma compared to the prevalence of mental illness. Observations suggests that most individuals who are exposed to high levels of stress and trauma are able to avoid serious mental illness.
We will be working on the first grant that has been awarded to the Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior, and Society, which is housed in the GNDP research theme at the Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. The Center is dedicated to studying the connection between our genes, brains, and behavior—and how that impacts our communities.
Using a multidisciplinary approach that combines animal behavior, brain imaging, electrophysiology, and gene expression experiments with machine learning and statistical modeling, our team plans to characterize mechanisms in the brain that could underlie the biological basis of resiliency.
The Bonthuis lab was awarded the NSF Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS): Multimodal network interactions for internal state dynamics of resiliency for Innovative Approaches to Science and Engineering Research on Brain Function ($1,210,000).
AWARD NUMBER: 1R01AT013189-01