Joshua Kogan

Joshua KoganKogan

Education:

B.A. Oberlin College (2014)

Ph.D. Stony Brook University (2024)

Advisor:

Alfredo Fontanini

Graduate Program:

Neurobiology and Behavior

Research Interest:

In general, I am interested in using two photon imaging and other cutting-edge techniques to understand mechanistic links between neural circuitry and behavior with the goal of learning how dysfunctions at the level of neural circuits can lead to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.

Publications: 

Kogan JF, Fontanini A. (2024) Learning enhances representations of taste-guided decisions in the mouse gustatory insular cortex. Curr Biol. PMID: 38631343.

Schiff HC, Kogan JF, Isaac M, Czarnecki LA, Fontanini A, Maffei A. (2023) Experience-dependent plasticity of gustatory insular cortex circuits and taste preferences. Sci Adv. PMID: 36630501.

Chen K, Kogan JF, Fontanini A. (2021) Spatially Distributed Representation of Taste Quality in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Behaving Mice. Curr Biol. PMID: 33186554.

Johnson MA, Contoreggi NH, Kogan JF, Bryson M, Rubin BR, Gray JD, Kreek MJ, McEwen BS, Milner TA. (2021) Chronic stress differentially alters mRNA expression of opioid peptides and receptors in the dorsal hippocampus of female and male rats. J Comp Neurol. PMID: 33483980

Marrocco J*, Gray JD*, Kogan JF, Einhorn NR, O’Cinneide EM, Rubin TG, Carroll TS, Schmidt EF, McEwen BS. (2019) Early Life Stress Restricts Translational Reactivity in CA3 Neurons Associated With Altered Stress Responses in Adulthood. Front Behav Neurosci. PMID: 31354448 *Equal Contribution

Reich B, Zhou Y, Goldstein E, Srivats SS, Contoreggi NH, Kogan JF, McEwen BS, Kreek MJ, Milner TA, Gray JD. (2019) Chronic immobilization stress primes the hippocampal opioid system for oxycodone-associated learning in female but not male rats. Synapse. PMID: 30632204

Ryan JD, Zhou Y, Contoreggi NH, Bshesh FK, Gray JD, Kogan JF, Ben KT, McEwen BS, Jeanne Kreek M, Milner TA. (2018) Sex Differences in the Rat Hippocampal Opioid System After Oxycodone Conditioned Place Preference. Neuroscience. PMID: 30316908

Marrocco JM, Petty GH, Rios MB, Gray JD, Kogan JF, Waters EM, Schmidt EF, Lee FS, McEwen BS.  (2017) A sexually dimorphic “pre-stressed” translational signature in CA3 pyramidal neurons of BDNF val66met mice.  Nature Communications.  PMID: 28993643

Pereira AC*, Gray JD*, Kogan JF, Davidson RL, Rubin TG, Okamoto M, Morrison JH, McEwen BS. (2017) Age and Alzheimer’s disease gene expression profiles reversed by the glutamate modulator riluzole.  Molecular Psychiatry PMID: 27021815 *Equal Contribution

Gray JD, Rubin TG, Kogan JF, Marrocco J, Weidmann J, Linkquist S, Lee FS, Schmidt E, McEwen BS. (2016) Translational profiling of stress-induced neuroplasticity in the CA3 pyramidal neurons of BDNF Val66Met mice. Molecular Psychiatry. PMID: 27956743

Awards:

Stony Brook MSTP Annual Retreat Research Award – 2024

Stony Brook MSTP Annual Retreat Best Talk Award – 2023

SUNY GREAT Award – 2022

F30 NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, NIH NIDCD – 2021-2025

Carolyn Kuckein Medical Student Research Fellowship, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society – 2018