Tara Keck
Tara Keck is an American-British neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, at University College London working in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology. She studies experience-dependent synaptic plasticity and its effect on behaviour.Education
Professor Keck attended Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, majoring in bioengineering and then earned a PhD in biomedical engineering from Boston University in 2005, working with John White. She grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania and attended Fairview High School.Career
Professor Keck completed her postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich, Germany with Tobias Bonhoeffer and Mark Huebener. She received the MRC Career Development Fellowship from the Medical Research Council in 2010 and subsequently started her own lab at King's College London in the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology. In 2014, she moved her lab to University College London. In 2018, she was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. Professor Keck's work focuses on different forms of synaptic plasticity in the intact brain, with a focus on homeostatic plasticity. She is a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and and was a finalist for the Max Planck Society Neuroscience Research Award.Works
- Epilepsy in small-world networks
- Frequency-dependent glycinergic inhibition modulates plasticity in hippocampus
- Cre-dependent Expression of Multiple Transgenes in Isolated Neurons of the Adult Forebrain
- Massive restructuring of neuronal circuits during functional reorganization of adult visual cortex
- Glycinergic inhibition in the hippocampus
- Long-term, high-resolution imaging in the mouse neocortex through a chronic cranial window
- Molecular and electrophysiological characterization of GFP-expressing CA1 interneurons in GAD65-GFP mice
- Loss of sensory input causes rapid structural changes of inhibitory neurons in adult mouse visual cortex
- Three dimensional imaging of the unsectioned adult spinal cord to assess axon regeneration and glial responses after injury
- Synaptic scaling and homeostatic plasticity in the mouse visual cortex in vivo
- Imaging neuronal populations in behaving rodents: paradigms for studying neural circuits underlying behavior in the mammalian cortex
- Nonlinear transfer of signal and noise correlations in cortical networks
- Subnetwork-specific homeostatic plasticity in mouse visual cortex
- Adult plasticity and cortical reorganization after peripheral lesions
- Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity: the current state of the field and future research directions
- Interactions between synaptic homeostatic mechanisms: an attempt to reconcile BCM theory, synaptic scaling and excitation/inhibition balance
- Deprivation induced homeostatic spine scaling in vivo is spatially localized to dendritic branches that have undergone recent spine loss
