Rate My Professor Rose Smither

Smither has contributed as co-author to several peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, reflecting her involvement in neuroscience and physiological research. Key works include 'Reduced reach-related modulation of motor thalamus neural activity in a rat model of Parkinson's disease' (Journal of Neuroscience, 2014, cited by 53), 'Patterned, but not tonic, optogenetic stimulation in motor thalamus improves reaching in acute drug-induced Parkinsonian rats' (Journal of Neuroscience, 2015, cited by 48), 'Altered recruitment of motor cortex neuronal activity during the grasping phase of skilled reaching in a chronic rat model of unilateral parkinsonism' (Journal of Neuroscience, 2019, cited by 34), 'A schizophrenia risk factor induces marked anatomical deficits at GABAergic-dopaminergic synapses in the rat ventral tegmental area' (Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2021, cited by 3), and 'Depressed HCN4 function in the type 2 diabetic sinoatrial node' (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2023, cited by 8). Her technical support is widely acknowledged in PhD theses and research outputs from the University of Otago, where she provides training and troubleshooting for confocal and electron microscopy, significantly impacting studies on neural circuits, Parkinson's models, cardiac physiology, and more. Through OMNI, she facilitates multidisciplinary collaborations, contributing to the university's research excellence in biomedical imaging.