Research Fellow/Senior Research off
Overview
I am a Research Fellow within the Systems Neuroengineering group at the Queensland Brain Institute. I was awarded a PhD in Neuroscience from Macquarie University in 2016 and have undertaken a postdoctoral appointment abroad (2016-2023) at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany.
I am a neurophysiologist with interests in understanding sensory processing. My research focuses on the different stations along the neuraxis from the periphery to the brain; the initial site of information acquisition and encoding (the dorsal root ganglia), the relay and modulatory center (thalamus) and the penultimate site for sensory perception (the cortex). My goal is to characterise how somatosensory information is routed and transformed within these areas and to understand how this information is altered following disease and dysfunction (e.g. autism, chronic pain).
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Neuroscience, Macquarie University
Publications
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Journal Article: Brain-wide connectivity map of mouse thermosensory cortices
Bokiniec, Phillip, Whitmire, Clarissa J., Leva, Tobias M. and Poulet, James F. A. (2023). Brain-wide connectivity map of mouse thermosensory cortices. Cerebral Cortex, 33 (8), 4870-4885. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac386
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Journal Article: A medullary centre for lapping in mice
Dempsey, Bowen, Sungeelee, Selvee, Bokiniec, Phillip, Chettouh, Zoubida, Diem, Séverine, Autran, Sandra, Harrell, Evan R., Poulet, James F. A., Birchmeier, Carmen, Carey, Harry, Genovesio, Auguste, McMullan, Simon, Goridis, Christo, Fortin, Gilles and Brunet, Jean-François (2021). A medullary centre for lapping in mice. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 6307, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26275-y
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Journal Article: On the presence and functional significance of sympathetic premotor neurons with collateralized spinal axons in the rat
Farmer, David G. S., Pracejus, Natasha, Dempsey, Bowen, Turner, Anita, Bokiniec, Phillip, Paton, Julian F. R., Pickering, Anthony E., Burguet, Jasmine, Andrey, Philippe, Goodchild, Ann K., McAllen, Robin M. and McMullan, Simon (2019). On the presence and functional significance of sympathetic premotor neurons with collateralized spinal axons in the rat. Journal of Physiology, 597 (13), 3407-3423. doi: 10.1113/JP277661
Publications
Journal Article
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Brain-wide connectivity map of mouse thermosensory cortices
Bokiniec, Phillip, Whitmire, Clarissa J., Leva, Tobias M. and Poulet, James F. A. (2023). Brain-wide connectivity map of mouse thermosensory cortices. Cerebral Cortex, 33 (8), 4870-4885. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac386
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A medullary centre for lapping in mice
Dempsey, Bowen, Sungeelee, Selvee, Bokiniec, Phillip, Chettouh, Zoubida, Diem, Séverine, Autran, Sandra, Harrell, Evan R., Poulet, James F. A., Birchmeier, Carmen, Carey, Harry, Genovesio, Auguste, McMullan, Simon, Goridis, Christo, Fortin, Gilles and Brunet, Jean-François (2021). A medullary centre for lapping in mice. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 6307, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26275-y
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Farmer, David G. S., Pracejus, Natasha, Dempsey, Bowen, Turner, Anita, Bokiniec, Phillip, Paton, Julian F. R., Pickering, Anthony E., Burguet, Jasmine, Andrey, Philippe, Goodchild, Ann K., McAllen, Robin M. and McMullan, Simon (2019). On the presence and functional significance of sympathetic premotor neurons with collateralized spinal axons in the rat. Journal of Physiology, 597 (13), 3407-3423. doi: 10.1113/JP277661
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Bowman, Belinda R., Bokiniec, Phillip, McMullan, Simon, Goodchild, Ann K. and Burke, Peter G.R. (2019). Somatostatin 2 receptors in the spinal cord tonically restrain thermogenic, cardiac and other sympathetic outflows. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13 (FEB) 121, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00121
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The neural circuits of thermal perception
Bokiniec, Phillip, Zampieri, Niccolò, Lewin, Gary R. and Poulet, James F.A. (2018). The neural circuits of thermal perception. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 52, 98-106. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.04.006
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Bokiniec, Phillip, Burke, Peter G.R., Turner, Anita J., McMullan, Simon and Goodchild, Ann K. (2018). Somatostatin 2 receptor activation in the rostral ventrolateral medulla does not mediate the decompensatory phase of haemorrhage. Shock, 50 (3), 331-338. doi: 10.1097/SHK.0000000000001011
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Bokiniec, Phillip, Shahbazian, Shila, McDougall, Stuart J., Berning, Britt A., Cheng, Delfine, Llewellyn-Smith, Ida J., Burke, Peter G. R., McMullan, Simon, Mühlenhoff, Martina, Hildebrandt, Herbert, Braet, Filip, Connor, Mark, Packer, Nicolle H. and Goodchild, Ann K. (2017). Polysialic acid regulates sympathetic outflow by facilitating information transfer within the nucleus of the solitary tract. Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (27), 6558-6574. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0200-17.2017
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Dempsey, Bowen, Le, Sheng, Turner, Anita, Bokiniec, Phil, Ramadas, Radhika, Bjaalie, Jan G., Menuet, Clement, Neve, Rachael, Allen, Andrew M., Goodchild, Ann K. and McMullan, Simon (2017). Mapping and analysis of the connectome of sympathetic premotor neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of the rat using a volumetric brain atlas. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 11 9, 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00009
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Entwisle, Blake, McMullan, Simon, Bokiniec, Phillip, Gross, Simon, Chung, Roger and Withford, Michael (2016). In vitro neuronal depolarization and increased synaptic activity induced by infrared neural stimulation. Biomedical Optics Express, 7 (9) #261134, 3211-3219. doi: 10.1364/BOE.7.003211
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Somatostatin in the rat rostral ventrolateral medulla: Origins and mechanism of action
Bou Farah, Lama, Bowman, Belinda R., Bokiniec, Phil, Karim, Shafinaz, Le, Sheng, Goodchild, Ann K. and Mcmullan, Simon (2016). Somatostatin in the rat rostral ventrolateral medulla: Origins and mechanism of action. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524 (2), 323-342. doi: 10.1002/cne.23846
