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Dr. Gaykema was born in the Netherlands and,completed
his academic education within the borders of the small country by the North
Sea. He received his Bacherlor of Science degree in Biology at the University
of Groningen in the northern part of the Netherlands. He had his first
experiences with experimental research working on projects guided by his
mentors Drs. Paul Luiten, Anton Steffens and Anton Scheurink. He also did
his graduate work at the University of Groningen, where he investigated
the organizational features of the cholinergic corticopetal system in the
rat basal forebrain between 1986 and 1992. In 1993, Dr. Gaykema moved to
Charlottesville, VA to work with Dr. Laszlo Zaborszky at the University
of Virginia (and later at Rutgers University in Newark NJ) on the characterization
of neural input of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons with correlated
light and electron microscopic microscopy. In 1994, he returned to the
Netherlands to work at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam with Dr. Fred
Tilders to characterize neural activation in response to inflammatory stimuli.
Doing so, Gaykema became active in the "psychoneuroimmunology" research.
He continued the study of neural systems responsive to immune stimuli in
the context of sickness symptoms and anxiety, at the University of Colorado
in Boulder (with Drs. Steven Maier and Linda Watkins) between 1997-2000,
and now at the University of Virginia.
For more information:
Professor Gaykema's CV
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