Rate My Professor Sandra Kuhlman

Kuhlman has published extensively on cortical circuits and sensory processing. Key publications include "Response Features of Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons in Mouse Visual Cortex" (2010), which detailed the diversity of visual responses in inhibitory neurons; "Top-Down-Mediated Facilitation in the Visual Cortex Is Gated by Subcortical Neuromodulation" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2016); "Feature Selectivity Is Stable in Primary Visual Cortex Across a Large Range of Spatial Frequencies" (2018); "Visual Experience Has Opposing Influences on the Quality of Orientation and Spatial Frequency Tuning" (eLife, 2022); and "Existing Function in Primary Visual Cortex Is Not Perturbed by New Skill Acquisition" (2022). These works highlight how experience shapes visual cortical function without disrupting established sensory representations. At Carnegie Mellon University, she was awarded the Eberly Family Career Development Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences. Currently at UB, Kuhlman teaches Applied Physiology (PGY-412) and mentors PhD students in neuroscience programs, contributing to the training of the next generation of researchers in cellular and molecular neuroscience.