Kathleen Rockland, PhD
Adjunct Professor (2000-Present)
Address
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave. Building 46
Cambridge, MA 02116
Email: kathrock@mit.edu
Research Interest
- Long distance cortical connections
- Cortical columnar organization
- Cortical circuitry
- Genetic basis of connectionally defined cell types
Education
- B.A. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (French), 1969
- M.A. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Romance Languages), 1972
- M.A. Boston University, Boston, MA (Anatomy), 1976
- Ph.D. Boston University, Boston, MA (Anatomy), 1979
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biology, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 1978-79
- Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1979-80
- Research Associate, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 1980-82
Honors and Awards
- Carver Investigator in Neuroscience 1991-94
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969 Princeton National Fellow, 1969
Grants
- 1983-1986: NEI (R01) Periodic Intrinsic Connections
- 1986-1995 (NEI) Periodic Extrinsic Connections
- 1995-2001 (NSF) Microcircuitry of cortical networks
- 1995-2001: NIMH (R01) Microcircuitry of pulvinar and neocortical connections
- 1991-2001: NINDS (PI: Antonio Damasio) Anatomical substrates of complex behavior
- 1999-2000: Neuroscience Training Program
- 2000-2010: Annual lab budget from RIKEN (Japan) Brain Science Institute
- 2008-2009: research funds from National Inst. Physiol. Sciences (“NIPS,” Japan)
- Ongoing: RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics; and CSHL Robertson Endowment Fund
Professional Service
- Animal Care Committee, member (1994-1996) and Chair (1996), U. of Iowa
- Cognitive Functional Neuroscience Review Committee (NIMH IFCN8) , member (1995-1999) and Chair (1998-1999)
- Advisory Committee of Cerebral Cortex
- National Science Foundation (Panel Member for Sensory Systems, 1994-1996)
- Reviewer Cerebral Cortex, European J. of Neuroscience, J. of Comparative Neurology, J. Neuroscience, Visual Neuroscience
- Member, Summer School Committee (2001, 2004) and Chair (2007)
- Co-editor “Cerbral Cortex,” volumes 10 (1994) and 12 (1996)
- Editorial board, Journal Comparative Neurology (2002-
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy (2007-
- Co-organizer CSHL Workshop “Circuits and Connectivity (2010, 2011)
Professional Affiliations
Society for Neuroscience
Lectures
German-Japanese Workshop: Computational and Systems Neurosci. (Berlin, 2009)
Stanford Inst. for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences (April, 2010)
Computations in Neocortical Circuits (Janelia Farm, May 2011)
Network Architecture of Brain Structure and Function (KITP, July 2011)
Publications
Rockland KS, Andresen J, Cowie RJ, and Robinson DL (1998). Single axon analysis of pulvinocortical connections to several visual areas in the macaque. J. Comp. Neurol., 406:221-250.
Rockland KS, (1998). Convergence and branching patterns of round, type 2 corticopulvinar axons. J. Comp. Neurol., 390:515-536.
Rockland KS, (1998). Complex microstructures in sensory cortical connections. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 8 (eds: Hudspeth AJ and Tanaka K), 545-551.
Rockland, K.S. and Van Hoesen, G.W. (1999). Some temporal and parietal cortical connections converge in CA1 of the primate hippocampus. Cereb. Cortex. 9:232-237.
Rockland, K.S. and Knutson, T. (2000). Feedback Connections from Area MT of the Squirrel Monkey to Area V1 and V2. J. Comp. Neurol. 425: 345-368.
Ding, S.L., Van Hoesen, G.W., and Rockland, K.S. (2000). Inferior parietal lobule projections to the presubiculum and neighboring ventromedial temporal cortical areas. J. Comp. Neurol. 425: 510-530.
Ding, S.L. and Rockland, K.S. (2001) Modular organization of the monkey presubiculum. Exp. Brain Res. 139:255-265.
Rockland, K.S. and Knutson, T. (2001) Axon collaterals of Meynert cells diverge over large portions of Area V1 in the macaque monkey. J. Comp. Neurol., 441:134-147.
Rockland, K.S. (2002) Visual cortical organization at the single axon level: a beginning. Neurosci. Res. 42:155-166.
Ichinohe N., Fujiyama F., Kaneko T. and Rockland K.S. (2003) Honeycomb-like mosaic at the border of layers 1 and 2 in the cerebral cortex. J Neurosci, 23:1372-1382.
Rockland K.S. (2004) Feedback connections : Splitting the Arrow, in The Primate Visual System, (C. Collins and J.H. Kaas eds), CRC Press, 387-405.
Rockland, K.S. and Ichinohe, N. (2004) Some thoughts on cortical minicolumns. Exp. Brain Res. 158: 265-277.
Ichinohe, N. and Rockland, K.S. (2005) Distribution of synaptic zinc in the macaque amgydala. J. Comp. Neurol. 489: 135-147.
Miyashita, T., Nishimura-Akiyoshi, S., Itohara, S. and Rockland, K.S. (2005) Strong expression of NETRIN-G2 in the monkey claustrum. Neuroscience 136:487-496.
Yamamori, T. and Rockland, K.S. (2006) Neocortical areas, layers, connections, and gene expression. Neurosci Res. 55: 11-27.
Miyashita, T. and Rockland, K.S. (2007) GABAergic projections from the hippocampus to the retrosplenial cortex in the rat. Eur. J. Neurosci. 26: 1193-1204.
Tomioka, R. and Rockland, K.S. (2007) Long-distance corticocortical GABAergic neurons in the adult monkey white and gray matter. J. Comp. Neurol. 505: 526-538.
Ichinohe, N., Knight, A., Ogawa, M., Ohshima, T., Mikoshiba, K., Yoshihara, Y., Terashima, T., and Rockland, K.S. (2008) Unusual patch-matrix organization in the retrosplenial cortex of the reeler mouse and Shaking rat Kawasaki. Cereb Cortex 18: 1125-1138.
Borra, E., Ichinohe, N., Sato, T., Tanifuji, M., and Rockland, K.S. (2010) Cortical connections to area TE in monkey: hybrid modular and distributed organization. Cereb Cortex 20: 257-270.
Ichinohe, N., Matsushita, A., Ohta, K., Rockland, K.S. (2010) Pathway-specific utilization of synaptic zinc in the macaque ventral visual cortical areas. Cereb Cortex. 20:2818-2831.