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Jimmy Dooley is an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Purdue University, associated with the College of Science. He leads the Sensorimotor Development Lab focusing on how sleep-related movements drive neural activity critical for sensorimotor development. His research combines multichannel neurophysiology, optogenetics, and computational methods to study infant rats.
- Education: A.B. in Biology/Psychology from University of Chicago (2009); Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UC Davis (2015); Postdoc at University of Iowa (2016-2022).
Research interests center on REM sleep twitches' role in motor cortex development and sensorimotor integration. His work challenges assumptions that awake-state movements are solely responsible for development, instead highlighting sleep's critical role. Recent studies explore how REM sleep twitches synchronize neural activity across brain regions during early development.
Publications span sleep physiology, motor neuron activity, and developmental neuroscience. Current projects investigate REM sleep's role in cortical motor control emergence and lifelong motor learning through twitches. His lab employs advanced techniques like computer vision and machine learning for behavioral analysis.
No scientific awards are listed but focuses on grants related to NIH developmental neuroscience funding. Lab location: Lilly 2-234, West Lafayette, IN.
