Lab members

Principal Investigator

Chandrashekhar D. Borkar Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Chandrashekhar received his Ph.D. in 2019 from RTM Nagpur University, India. His PhD thesis work on role of CART peptide in the neurobiological process of learning and memory with Dr. Kokare was supported by DBT, RTMNU and CSIR fellowships. During his postdoctoral research with Dr. Jonathan Fadok at Tulane University, he worked to understand neurobiological mechanisms of flight and escape responses in mice. In the fall of 2025, he started his own lab at Miami University, focusing on studying the neural mechanisms of escalated defensive responses, especially, aggression/fight following traumatic events.

Email: borkarc@miamioh.edu

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y-PUK2EAAAAJ&hl=en

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