Jorge Golowasch

Professor and Research Director, Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences

jorge.p.golowasch@njit.edu

CKB 420F

About Me

I was born and grew up in Santiago, Chile. My college education was at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile (major in Biology, concentration in Neuroscience). I moved to the US in 1986 to do a PhD at Brandeis University, then did post-docs at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France), U. Kaiserslautern (Germany) and at HHMI (Mass Gen Hospital, Boston).

Education

Ph.D. ; Brandeis University ; Biophysics ; 1991

B.S. ; Faculty of Sciences, Universida de Chile ; Biology ; 1984

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/golowasch-lab/

2025 Fall Courses

BIOL 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

BIOL 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH

BIOL 790D - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH

BIOL 792C - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

BIOL 315 - PRINCIPLES OF NEUROBIOLOGY

BIOL 491 - SENIOR PROJECT

BIOL 492 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY

BIOL 790E - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

BIOL 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

BIOL 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

BIOL 790C - DOCTORAL DISSERTN & RESRCH

BIOL 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

BIOL 790B - DOCT DISSERTATION & RESRCH

Teaching Interests

Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience/Biology, Cell Biology, Critical Thinking, special topics in neuroscience

Past Courses

BIOL 315: PRINCIPLES OF NEUROBIOLOGY

BIOL 341: INTRO TO NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

BIOL 405: CELL PHYSIOLOGY AND IMAGING

BIOL 447: CELLULAR & SYSTEM NEUR-HONORS

BIOL 447: CELLULAR&SYSTEMS NEUROSC-HON

BIOL 447: CELLULAR&SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE

BIOL 447: SYSTEMS NEUROBIOLOGY

BIOL 498: ST: GLIA, THE NEURON'S FORGOTTEN SIBLING

BIOL 498: ST: THE NEURON'S FORGOTTEN SIBLING

BIOL 630: CRITICAL THINKING FOR LIFE SCI

BIOL 641: SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE

BIOL 698: INTRO TO NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

BIOL 698: ST:

BIOL 698: ST: GLIA, THE NEURON'S FORGOTTEN SIBLING

BIOL 698: ST: THE NEURON'S FORGOTTEN SIBLING

BIOL 698: ST:NEUROSCIENCE

R120 524: CELL MOLEC DEV

Research Interests

Neuroscience: mechanisms that control the stability of neuronal activity, analytical and quantitative analysis of electrical properties of neurons and networks, neuromodulation, circadian activity, glia-neuron interactions.

Journal Article

Anna C Schneider, David Fox, Omar Itani, Jorge P. Golowasch, Dirk M. Bucher, Farzan Nadim. 2021. "Frequency-Dependent Action of Neuromodulation." eNeuro , vol. 8 , no. 6 .

Trinh Tran, Cagri T Unal, Laszlo Zaborszky, Alfredo Kirkwood, Horacio G. Rotstein, Jorge P. Golowasch. 2019. "Ionic current correlations are ubiquitous across phyla." Scientific Reports , vol. 9 , pp. 1687.

Jorge P. Golowasch, Amitabha K. Bose, Y. Guan, D. Salloum, A. Roeser, Farzan Nadim. 2017. "A balance of outward and linear inward ionic currents is required for generation of slow-wave oscillations." Journal of Neurophysiology , vol. 118 , pp. 1092-1104.

Jorge P. Golowasch. 2017. "Activation mechanism of a neuromodulator-gated pacemaker ionic current.." J. Neurophysiology , vol. 118 , pp. 595–609.

Horacio G. Rotstein, Motolani Olarinre, Jorge P. Golowasch. 2016. "Dynamic compensation mechanism give rise to period and duty cycle level sets in oscillatory neuronal models." Journal of Neurophysiology , vol. Online First .

Amitabha K. Bose, Jorge P. Golowasch, Yinzheng Guan, Farzan Nadim. 2014. "The role of linear and voltage-dependent ionic currents in the generation of slow wave oscillations." Journal of Computational Neuroscience , vol. 37 , no. 2 , pp. 229-242.

Jorge P. Golowasch. 2014. "Mechanisms underlying nervous system plasticity and stability. ." Bioscience , vol. 64 , no. 7 , pp. 570-580.

Shunbig Zhao, Jorge P. Golowasch. 2012. "Ionic Current Correlations Underlie the Global Tuning of Large Numbers of Neuronal Activity Attributes." Journal of Neuroscience , vol. 32 , no. 39 , pp. 13380-13388.

Cagri T Unal, Jorge P. Golowasch, Laszlo Zaborszky. 2012. "Adult mouse basal forebrain harbors two distinct cholinergic populations defined by their electrophysiology." Frontiers in behavioral Neuroscience , vol. 6 , no. 21 , pp. 1-14.

Simone Temporal, Mohati Desai, Olga Khorkova, Gladis Varghese, Aihua Dai, David Schulz, Jorge P. Golowasch. 2011. "Neuromodulation independently determines correlated channel expression and conductance levels in motor neurons of the stomatogastric ganglion." Journal of Neurophysiology , vol. In press .

Yili Zhang, Jorge P. Golowasch. 2011. "Recovery of rhythmic activity in a central pattern generator: analysis of the role of neuromodulator and activity-dependent mechanisms." Journal of Computational Neuroscience , vol. In press .

Shunbing Zhao, Jorge P. Golowasch, Farzan Nadim. 2010. "Pacemaker neuron and network oscillations depend on a neuromodulator-regulated linear current." Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience , vol. 4 , no. 21 .

Farzan Nadim, Jorge P. Golowasch, Gladis Thomas, Adam Taylor, Christopher Khalil, Arlene Pineda, Arif Patel. 2009. "Membrane capacitance measurements revisited: dependence of capacitance value on measurement method in non-isopotential neurons." Journal of Neurophysiology , vol. 102 , pp. 2161-2175.

Yili Zhang, Khorkova Olga, Rodriguez Rosa, Jorge P. Golowasch. 2008. "Activity and Neuromodulatory Input Contribute to the Recovery of Rhythmic Output After Decentralization in a Central Pattern Generator." Journal of Neurophysiology , vol. 101 , pp. 372-386.

Juliane Gansert, Jorge P. Golowasch, Farzan Nadim. 2007. "Sustained rhythmic activity in gap- neurons depends on the diameter of coupled dendrites." Journal of Neurophysiology , vol. 98 , pp. 3450-3460.

Chapter

Farzan Nadim, Xinping Li, Michael Gray, Jorge P. Golowasch. "The Role of Electrical Coupling in Rhythm Generation in Small Networks." pp. 51-78. Academic Press, 2017.

Dirk M. Bucher, Gal Haspel, Jorge P. Golowasch, Farzan Nadim. "Central Pattern Generators." pp. 1-12. eLS, John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Jorge P. Golowasch, Farzan Nadim. "Capacitance, Membrane." In Jaeger, Dieter; Jung, Ranu, eds., pp. 1-5. Springer, 2014.

Jorge P. Golowasch. "Stability and Homeostasis in Small Network Central Pattern Generators." In Jaeger, Dieter; Jung, Ranu, eds., pp. 2858-2864. Springer, 2014.

Technical Report

"Single-Neuron Gene Expression Analysis Using the Maxwell® 16 LEV System in the Neural Systems and Behavior Course"
Promega Corporation Web site, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2014.

Other

"Dynamic Neural Networks: The Stomatogastric System"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2012.

"Dynamic Neural Networks: The Stomatogastric System"
November, 2011.

"Dynamic Neural Networks: The Stomatogastric System"
November, 2010.

"Dynamic Neural Networks: The Stomatogastric System"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2009.

Conference Proceeding

"Approximating the phase response curves of square wave bursting neurons."
BMC Neuroscience, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2008.

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