Parker Lab RESEARCH

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We are a close-knit group of scientists bound by the shared goal of developing better treatments for neurological and psychiatric disease. We embrace diverse backgrounds and viewpoints and support the development of careers in both academia and industry.

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Jones G Parker, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Parker was raised in a small east Tennessee town called Etowah and developed a passion for science as a student at The Baylor School in Chattanooga, TN. He honed this interest at Colorado College (BA Biochemistry) and then in Dr. Richard Palmiter’s lab at the University of Washington (PhD Biochemistry). As a postdoctoral fellow, Jones worked with Dr. Mark Schnitzer at Stanford as Pfizer postdoctoral fellow, jointly mentored by Dr. Michael Ehlers.

A common thread to Jones’s work has been the use of in vivo recording approaches to understand how disease-related alterations in dopamine transmission influence neural activity and behavior. Given the great number of neurological and psychiatric diseases associated with dopamine system dysfunction, the Parker Laboratory is uniquely positioned to understand how treatments for these diseases work and where they may fall short–providing in-roads for developing newer and more comprehensive therapies.