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Dr. Ryan Patwell

Postdoctoral fellow

About me

I joined Dr Grinevich's lab as a postdoctoral researcher in autumn 2021, having completed my PhD in neuroscience. My research focuses on understanding the reinforcing potential of central oxytocin signalling in relation to social and non-social rewards. To this end, I will use a variety of techniques, including operant self-administration, optogenetics and calcium imaging, to characterise and manipulate the central oxytocin system in vivo.

 

Ryan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences and a PhD in Neuroscience. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in our team.

Expertise

Operant conditioningStereotactic Injections
Molecular neuroscienceEpigenetic assays
Publications in peer reviewed journals since 2006

TOP 5 publications:

  1. Iwasaki M, Lefevre A, Althammer F, Clauss Creusot E, Łąpieś O, Petitjean H, Hilfiger L, Kerspern D, Melchior M, Küppers S, Krabichler Q, Patwell R, Kania A, Gruber T, Kirchner MK, Wimmer M, Fröhlich H, Dötsch L, Schimmer J, Herpertz SC, Ditzen B, Schaaf CP, Schönig K, Bartsch D, Gugula A, Trenk A, Blasiak A, Stern JE, Darbon P, Grinevich V, Charlet A. An analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray in rats.Nat Commun. 2023 14(1):1066.
  2. Schimmer J, Patwell R, Küppers S, Grinevich V. The Relationship Between Oxytocin and Alcohol Dependence.Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2025 71:347-378. Epub 2023 Sep 12.
  3. Baudon A, Clauss-Creusot E, Darbon P, Patwell R, Grinevich V, Charlet A. Calcium imaging and BAPTA loading of amygdala astrocytes in mouse brain slices.STAR Protoc. 2022 3(1):101159.

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