Prof. Moshe Parnas

Moshe Parnas is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University. He received his B.Sc. in computer Science and Ph.D. in neurobiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem followed by Postdoctoral studies at Oxford University.

He uses a multidisciplinary approach that includes in vivo whole cell patch recordings and functional imaging, behavior, molecular biology, mathematical modelling and genetics.

He studies how neural circuits encode information and support behaviour, learning and memory. Such studies revealed novel mechanism of signal decorrelation and demonstrated that active mechanism prevent the co-formation of conflicting memories.

The main focus of the lab is the voltage dependence of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). Although ~50% of GPCRs are voltage dependent, whether this voltage dependency has a physiological role was never examined.

Moshe's lab is the only one that studies neuromodulation of learning and memory, perception and behaviour by GPCRs and then examines how their voltage dependence affects these processes.