Jacob Reimer
He/Him
I am bi and I am a neuroscientist.//
I did my undergraduate work at New College of Florida, a small (especially at the time) liberal arts college in Sarasota where I graduated with a divisional Natural Sciences degree.
After taking a few years off, I started my graduate career in the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science program at the University of Chicago thinking that I wanted to study the history and philosophy of neuroscience. However, I soon realized that my strengths and interests were more in the natural sciences, and I had the opportunity to take a MA in CHSS and switch into the Neuroscience program for my PhD. I studied primate motor control and brain-machine interfaces as a graduate student at U of C, and then switched to mouse visual cortex when I moved to Baylor College of Medicine as a postdoc. I was hired here as an Assistant professor and started my own lab at the end of 2018.
Throughout my career, I have been interested in how fast changes in brain state shape information processing in cortical circuits, and this is currently the focus of my lab. We use a lot of fun optical techniques to measure and manipulate neural activity, especially two-photon imaging of calcium-sensitive proteins and other fluorescent sensors.