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Mark Cembrowski

Associate Professor
Academic Appointment
Associate Professor
Research Focus
Brain and Nerves Alzheimer's Disease
Contact Info
cembrowskilab.com
mark.cembrowski@ubc.ca
604-822-3463

Biography

Dr. Mark Cembrowski is an associate professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia and an Investigator with the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. His research interests are in applying technological, computational, and mathematical approaches to understand healthy brain function, especially learning and memory, as well as brain changes that emerge in Alzheimer’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder and other brain dysfunction.

Dr. Cembrowski has received a variety of recognitions for his research, including being named a Next Generation Leader by the Allen Institute, a Future Leader of Canadian Brain Research by the Brain Canada Foundation, a Scholar with Michael Smith Health Research British Columbia, an Alzheimer’s Young Investigator by the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada and the Krieg Cortical Scholar in the 2020 worldwide competition.

Publications

  • Cell reports -

    The cell-type-specific spatial organization of the anterior thalamic nuclei of the mouse brain.

    Kapustina M, Zhang AA, Tsai JYJ, Bristow BN, Kraus L, Sullivan KE, Erwin SR, Wang L, Stach TR, Clements J, Lemire AL, Cembrowski MS
  • Molecular psychiatry -

    Engram neurons: Encoding, consolidation, retrieval, and forgetting of memory.

    Guskjolen A, Cembrowski MS
  • Cell reports -

    A Sparse, Spatially Biased Subtype of Mature Granule Cell Dominates Recruitment in Hippocampal-Associated Behaviors.

    Erwin SR, Sun W, Copeland M, Lindo S, Spruston N, Cembrowski MS
  • Cell -

    Dissociable Structural and Functional Hippocampal Outputs via Distinct Subiculum Cell Classes.

    Cembrowski MS, Phillips MG, DiLisio SF, Shields BC, Winnubst J, Chandrashekar J, Bas E, Spruston N
  • Neuron -

    Spatial Gene-Expression Gradients Underlie Prominent Heterogeneity of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons.

    Cembrowski MS, Bachman JL, Wang L, Sugino K, Shields BC, Spruston N
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