Biography:

Dr. Herzog grew up in the middle of the United States with the dream of becoming the next Jacques Cousteau. In graduate school, he studied in the laboratory of Robert Barlow how and what horseshoe crabs see while swimming in the ocean. He became fascinated by the circadian changes in the crabs' lateral eyes to compensate for daily changes in light level. As a postdoc, he moved to the University of Virginia to study the physiology of circadian oscillators in the laboratory of Gene Block. Although this was the end of his marine biology career, he enjoyed applying multielectrode array and luciferase-based reporters to learn how many neurons keep genetically-determined near 24-h time. Since 2000, he has been at Washington University in St. Louis, as far as you can be from an ocean. His lab studies the cells and molecules involved in mammalian circadian cycling.

Short summary of research interests:

circadian biology, neural basis of behavior, neurobiology, gliobiology, sensory biology, vision, olfaction, network analysis, neuropeptide signaling and synaptic plasticity

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