The Knierim Lab studies the behavioral and cognitive correlates of the hippocampal formation—a brain region that is critical for forming and storing long-term memories. Read more about our research.

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News & Announcements

Congratulations to Yotaro

Yotaro Sueoka, a graduate student in our lab, was recently awarded an international scholarship from the Honjo foundation in Japan in support of his studies here at Hopkins.

PNAS paper on impaired hippocampal spatial coding in mice with a dentate gyrus knockout

Congratulations to former Knierim lab postdocs Xiaojing Chen and Cheng Wang for their recent paper with James Knierim in PNAS titled “Impaired spatial coding of the hippocampus in a dentate gyrus hypoplasia mouse model” (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416214122). Xiaojing and Cheng are currently in Shenzhen, China. Xiaojing is at the Brain Research Center, Dept. of Neuroscience at Southern...