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Michael J. O'Donovan

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NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States 
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Dr. O'Donovan received his M.D. from the University of Bristol, England in 1972 and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Sherrington School of Physiology, at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London in 1978. He then came to the United States to do post-doctoral work at the NIH with Robert Burke and then Yale University, where with Dr. Lynn Landmesser he became interested in the development of spinal networks. In 1982 he joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Iowa. In 1988 he joined the Laboratory of Neural Control at the NINDS and in 1991 became Chief of the Section on Developmental Neurobiology and retired in 2021. Dr. O'Donovan remains active as a collaborator, his major research interest is in the organization of motor networks in the spinal cord and was appointed a Scientist Emeritus in February 2022.

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Robert E. Burke post-doc
Lynn T. Landmesser post-doc

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Patrick J. Whelan grad student
Gal Haspel post-doc 2007-2013 NINDS
Dvir Blivis post-doc 2008-2016 NINDS
Vatsala Thirumalai research scientist National Institutes of Health

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Falgairolle M, O'Donovan MJ. (2022) Motoneuronal Regulation of Central Pattern Generator and Network Function. Advances in Neurobiology. 28: 259-280
Falgairolle M, O'Donovan MJ. (2021) Optogenetic activation of V1 interneurons reveals the multimodality of spinal locomotor networks in the neonatal mouse. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society For Neuroscience
Falgairolle M, O'Donovan MJ. (2020) Motoneuronal Spinal Circuits in Degenerative Motoneuron Disease. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 13: 74
Williamson NH, Ravin R, Benjamini D, et al. (2019) Magnetic resonance measurements of cellular and sub-cellular membrane structures in live and fixed neural tissue. Elife. 8
Falgairolle M, O'Donovan MJ. (2019) Feedback regulation of locomotion by motoneurons in the vertebrate spinal cord. Current Opinion in Physiology. 8: 50-55
Falgairolle M, O'Donovan MJ. (2019) V1 interneurons regulate the pattern and frequency of locomotor-like activity in the neonatal mouse spinal cord. Plos Biology. 17: e3000447
Blivis D, Falgairolle M, O'Donovan MJ. (2019) Dye-coupling between neonatal spinal motoneurons and interneurons revealed by prolonged back-filling of a ventral root with a low molecular weight tracer in the mouse. Scientific Reports. 9: 3201
Williamson NH, Ravin R, Benjamini D, et al. (2019) Author response: Magnetic resonance measurements of cellular and sub-cellular membrane structures in live and fixed neural tissue Elife
Falgairolle M, Puhl JG, Pujala A, et al. (2017) Motoneurons regulate the central pattern generator during drug-induced locomotor-like activity in the neonatal mouse. Elife. 6
Blivis D, Haspel G, Mannes PZ, et al. (2017) Identification of a novel spinal nociceptive-motor gate control for Aδ pain stimuli in rats. Elife. 6
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