Dr Gülsen Sürmeli

Personal profile

• Current: Wellcome Trust ISSF3 Postdoctoral Fellow
• Past: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow
• PhD: Columbia University, NY

Research

Currently I am investigating brain-wide connections from the Entorhinal cortex (EC) to the telencephelon to understand the contributions of EC in creating and influencing cortical networks responsible for long-term memory storage. I am using a variety of anatomical techniques and in-vitro electrophysiology as well as Calcium imaging in freely moving mice to tackle this vast question.

Relevant publications

• Sürmeli G, Marcu DC, McClure C, Garden DLF, Pastoll H, Nolan MF. Molecularly Defined Circuitry Reveals Input-Output Segregation in Deep Layers of the Medial Entorhinal Cortex. Neuron. 2015;88: 1040–1053.
• 2. Gonzalez-Sulser A, Parthier D, Candela A, McClure C, Pastoll H, Garden D, et al. GABAergic projections from the medial septum selectively inhibit interneurons in the medial entorhinal cortex. J Neurosci. 2014;34: 16739–16743.
• 3. Hanley O, Jung H, Philippidou P, Surmeli G. Genetic and functional modularity of Hox activities in the specification of limb-innervating motor neurons. Genetics. journals.plos.org; 2013; Available: http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003184
• 4. Ramsden HL, Sürmeli G, McDonagh SG, Nolan MF. Laminar and dorsoventral molecular organization of the medial entorhinal cortex revealed by large-scale anatomical analysis of gene expression. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015;11: e1004032.
• 5. Sürmeli G, Akay T, Ippolito GC, Tucker PW, Jessell TM. Patterns of spinal sensory-motor connectivity prescribed by a dorsoventral positional template. Cell. 2011;147: 653–665.