Marc Normandin earned his doctorate in Physics in the context of signal analysis and model parameter estimation of gravitational wave signals from ground-based interferometers. He then transitioned to neuroscience where he applies his extensive knowledge of mathematical, data analysis, and computational techniques to neuroscience data acquired from EEG/EMG, tetrodes, and calcium imaging recordings in the context of spatial navigation and episodic memory. He utilizes high performance computing on distributed computer clusters, as well as GPUs, for his analyses.

Selected Publications:

• Gagliardi, C.M., Normandin, M.E., Keinath, A.T. et al. Distinct neural mechanisms for heading retrieval and context recognition in the hippocampus during spatial reorientation. Nat Commun 15, 5968 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50112-7

• Lopez MR, Wasberg SMH, Gagliardi CM, Normandin ME, Muzzio IA. Mystery of the memory engram: History, current knowledge, and unanswered questions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2024 Apr;159:105574. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105574. Epub 2024 Feb 6. PMID: 38331127.

• Normandin, M. E., Garza, M. C., Ramos-Alvarez, M. M., Julian, J. B., Eresanara, T., Punjaala, N., . . . Muzzio, I. A. (2022). Navigable Space and Traversable Edges Differentially Influence Reorientation in Sighted and Blind Mice. Psychol Sci, 33(6), 925-947. doi:10.1177/09567976211055373
• Yuan RK, Lopez MR, Ramos-Alvarez MM, Normandin, M. E., Thomas AS, Uygun DS, Cerda VR, Grenier AE, Wood MT, Gagliardi CM, Guajardo H, Muzzio IA. Differential effect of sleep deprivation on place cell representations, sleep architecture, and memory in young and old mice. Cell Rep. 2021 Jun 15;35(11):109234. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109234. PMID: 34133936; PMCID: PMC8545463.
• Bertero A, Zurita H, Normandin M, Apicella AJ. Auditory Long-Range Parvalbumin Cortico-Striatal Neurons. Front Neural Circuits. 2020 Jul 23;14:45. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2020.00045. PMID: 32792912; PMCID: PMC7390902.
• Normandin, Marc E. and Mohanty, Soumya D. Towards a real-time fully-coherent all-sky search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences using particle swarm optimization. Physical Review D, 2020, v101, 082001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.082001.
• Normandin, Marc E. and Mohanty, Soumya D. and Weerathunga, Thilina S. Particle swarm optimization based search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences: Performance improvements. Physical Review D, 2018, v98, 044029. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.044029.
• Lam, Michael T.  and Romano, Joseph D.  and Key, Joey S.  and Normandin, Marc  and Hazboun,Jeffrey S. An acoustical analogue of a galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector. American Journal of Physics, 2018, v86, issue 10, p755. doi:10.1119/1.5050190.