Oscar C.Ìý³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú

  • Assistant Professor
  • INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Oscar Gonzalez

Research Interests

Education

  • 2021 – 2024, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
  • 2019 – 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
  • 2016 – 2019, Ph.D. (Neuroscience), University of California, San Deigo
  • 2008 – 2012, B.S. (Biology), University of California, Riverside

Professional Experience

  • 2026 – Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 2024 – 2026, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Honors and Awards

  • 2024, National Institute on Aging, Pathway to Independence Award K99/R00
  • 2021, National Institute of Health, T32 Postdoctoral Training Grant
  • 2014, National Science Foundation -ÌýGraduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
  • 2012,ÌýUC Riverside Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship
  • 2010, Hispanic Serving Institute Program (HIS-CCRAA) STEM Pathway Award

Recent Publications

For complete list of publications, .

  • Kyriakakis P.,Ìý³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., (2025). Current and emerging tools for studying animal models of sleep and autism.ÌýJournal of Psychiatry ResearchÌý193, 283-301.
  • Donovan L.J., Brewer C.L., Bond S.F., Laslavic L.M., Lopez A.P., Colman L., Jordan C.E., Hansen L.H., ³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., Pujari A., de Lecea L., Quarta M., Kauer J.A., Tawfik V.L., (2025). Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia. Nature NeuroscienceÌý28, 985-997.
  • Marsh B., Navas-Zuloaga G., Rosen B.Q., Sokolov Y., Delanois J.E.,Ìý³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., Krishnan G.P., Halgren E., Bazhenov M., (2024). Emergent effects of synaptic connectivity on the dynamics of global and local slow waves in a large-scale thalamocortical network model of human brain.Ìý PLOS Computational Biology 20,Ìýe1012245.
  • Yang D., Wang Y., Qi T., Zhang X., Shen L., Ma J., Pang Z., Lal N.K., McClatchy D.B., Seradj S.H., Leung V.H., Wang K., Xie Y., Polli F.S., Maximov A.,Ìý³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., de Lecea L., Cline H.T., Augustine V., Yates J.R., Ye L. (2024). Phosporylation of pyruvate dehydrogenase inversely associated with neuronal activity. Neuron, 112, 959-971
  • ³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C.,ÌýTimofeev I., Bazhenov M. (2024). Role of ion concentration dynamics in epileptic seizures. In:ÌýNoebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado-Escueta AV, editors. Jasper’s basic mechanisms of the epilepsies, 5th edition.
  • Bian W., ³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., de Lecea L. (2023). Adolescent sleep defects and dopaminergic hyperactivity in miceÌýwith aÌý schizophrenia-linked Shank3 mutation.ÌýSLEEP 46:7,Ìýzsad131
  • Angelakos C.C., Girven K.S., Liu Y.,Ìý³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., Murphy K.R., Jennings K.J., Giardino W.J., Zweifel L.S., Suko A., Palmiter R.D., Clark S.D., Krasnow M.A., Bruchas M.R., de Lecea L. (2023). A cluster of neuropeptide S neurons regulates breathing and arousal.ÌýCurrent Biology,Ìý33:24,Ìý5439-5455. e7
  • Tyree S., Jennings K., ³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., Li S., Nicholson J., von Heimendahl M., de Lecea L. (2023). Optogenetic and pharmacological probing of hypocretin neurons in impulsivity.ÌýCommunications Biology,Ìý6:74
  • ³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú O.C., Sokolov Y., Krishnan G.P., Delanois J.E., Bazhenov M. (2020). Can Sleep Protect Memories from Catastrophic Forgetting?ÌýeLife, 9:e51005