Randy Bruno

Professor Randy M. Bruno is a neuroscientist at Oxford whose research seeks to decipher how the cerebral cortex is assembled from diverse cell types into functional circuits that mediate behaviour. His lab employs in vivo electrophysiology, cellular imaging, targeted manipulations, and computational modelling—particularly using the rodent whisker-barrel system—to probe how information flows across cortical layers and how thalamic inputs shape cortical computation. His lab is particularly interested in imaging dendrites in awake animals to understand the role of this subcellular structure in behaviour.