Mark Cembrowski
Associate Professor
Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Other Titles
UBC Investigator, Centre for Brain Health, UBC
Visiting Scientist, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Next Generation Leader, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Contact
Email: mark.cembrowski@ubc.ca
Office: 604-822-3463
Website: www.cembrowskilab.com
Education
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Postdoc)
Northwestern University (MS, PhD in Applied Mathematics)
University of British Columbia (BSc in Mathematics)
We aim to understand how the brain forms, stores, and retrieves memories. To do this, we take a multidisciplinary, multiscale approach. We combine big data analysis and cutting-edge experimental techniques to study memory across the spatial scales of the nervous system: molecules, cells, circuits, and behaviour. With this combination, we aim to generate a comprehensive understanding of the neurobiological rules of memory in both health and disorder.
- Erwin, Sarah R and Bristow, Brianna N and Sullivan, Kaitlin E and Kendrick, Rennie M and Marriott, Brian and Wang, Lihua and Clements, Jody and Lemire, Andrew L and Jackson, Jesse and Cembrowski, Mark S Spatially patterned excitatory neuron subtypes and projections of the claustrum, eLife 2021;10:e68967, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68967
- O’Leary, Timothy P and Sullivan, Kaitlin E and Wang, Lihua and Clements, Jody and Lemire, Andrew L and Cembrowski, Mark S Extensive and spatially variable within-cell-type heterogeneity across the basolateral amygdala, eLife 2020;9:e59003, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59003
- Sarah R. Erwin, Weinan Sun, Monique Copeland, Sarah Lindo, Nelson Spruston, Mark S. Cembrowski, A sparse, spatially biased subtype of mature granule cell dominates recruitment in hippocampal-associated behaviors, Cell Reports, Volume 31, Issue 4, 2020, 107551, ISSN 2211-1247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107551
- Mark S. Cembrowski, Matthew G. Phillips, Salvatore F. DiLisio, Brenda C. Shields, Johan Winnubst, Jayaram Chandrashekar, Erhan Bas, Nelson Spruston, Dissociable structural and functional hippocampal outputs via distinct subiculum cell classes, Cell, Volume 173, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1280-1292.e18, ISSN 0092-8674, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.031.
- Mark S. Cembrowski, Julia L. Bachman, Lihua Wang, Ken Sugino, Brenda C. Shields, Nelson Spruston, Spatial gene-expression gradients underlie prominent heterogeneity of CA1 pyramidal neurons Neuron, Volume 89, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 351-368, ISSN 0896-6273, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.013.