Dan McCloskey is Professor and Chair of Psychology at the College of Staten Island, a senior college of The City University of New York (CUNY) where he is a member of the Center for Developmental Neuroscience. He holds doctoral appointments at the CUNY Graduate Center in Neuroscience and Neuropsychology. Dr. McCloskey received his PhD in Biological Psychology from Stony Brook University in 2003. He uses a combination of computationally-intensive approaches to study animal behavior, quantitative neuroanatomy, and single cell and network level electrophysiology.
PhD in Integrative Neuroscience, 2003
Stony Brook University
BA in Psychology, 1997
SUNY College at Oswego
Posts are the thoughts & opinions of the McCloskey Lab members and should not be confused with peer-reviewed academic research
This is a synopsis of work we published today in the journal Current Biology.
Former PhD Student Dr. Donald Thevalingam was very intrigued with the enhancement of brain hyaluronan which has been identified in the African naked mole-rat. He set out to explore how this enhancement may influence the extracellular space of the brain in this species. This work is the result. It was accomplished through a wonderful collaboration with the Hrabetova Lab at SUNY Downstate. The conclusions of this work may cause ust to re-think how the brain accomplishes hypoxia tolerance in these extremophile rodents.