Oscar C. González

  • Assistant Professor
  • INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Oscar Gonzalez

Research Interests

Education

  • 2021 – 2024, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
  • 2019 – 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
  • 2016 – 2019, Ph.D. (Neuroscience), University of California, San Deigo
  • 2008 – 2012, B.S. (Biology), University of California, Riverside

Professional Experience

  • 2026 – Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 2024 – 2026, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Honors and Awards

  • 2024, National Institute on Aging, Pathway to Independence Award K99/R00
  • 2021, National Institute of Health, T32 Postdoctoral Training Grant
  • 2014, National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
  • 2012, UC Riverside Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship
  • 2010, Hispanic Serving Institute Program (HIS-CCRAA) STEM Pathway Award

Recent Publications

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  • Kyriakakis P., González O.C., (2025). Current and emerging tools for studying animal models of sleep and autism. Journal of Psychiatry Research 193, 283-301.
  • Donovan L.J., Brewer C.L., Bond S.F., Laslavic L.M., Lopez A.P., Colman L., Jordan C.E., Hansen L.H., González O.C., Pujari A., de Lecea L., Quarta M., Kauer J.A., Tawfik V.L., (2025). Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia. Nature Neuroscience 28, 985-997.
  • Marsh B., Navas-Zuloaga G., Rosen B.Q., Sokolov Y., Delanois J.E., González O.C., Krishnan G.P., Halgren E., Bazhenov M., (2024). Emergent effects of synaptic connectivity on the dynamics of global and local slow waves in a large-scale thalamocortical network model of human brain.  PLOS Computational Biology 20, e1012245.
  • Yang D., Wang Y., Qi T., Zhang X., Shen L., Ma J., Pang Z., Lal N.K., McClatchy D.B., Seradj S.H., Leung V.H., Wang K., Xie Y., Polli F.S., Maximov A., González O.C., de Lecea L., Cline H.T., Augustine V., Yates J.R., Ye L. (2024). Phosporylation of pyruvate dehydrogenase inversely associated with neuronal activity. Neuron, 112, 959-971
  • González O.C., Timofeev I., Bazhenov M. (2024). Role of ion concentration dynamics in epileptic seizures. In: Noebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado-Escueta AV, editors. Jasper’s basic mechanisms of the epilepsies, 5th edition.
  • Bian W., González O.C., de Lecea L. (2023). Adolescent sleep defects and dopaminergic hyperactivity in mice with a  schizophrenia-linked Shank3 mutation. SLEEP 46:7, zsad131
  • Angelakos C.C., Girven K.S., Liu Y., González O.C., Murphy K.R., Jennings K.J., Giardino W.J., Zweifel L.S., Suko A., Palmiter R.D., Clark S.D., Krasnow M.A., Bruchas M.R., de Lecea L. (2023). A cluster of neuropeptide S neurons regulates breathing and arousal. Current Biology, 33:24, 5439-5455. e7
  • Tyree S., Jennings K., González O.C., Li S., Nicholson J., von Heimendahl M., de Lecea L. (2023). Optogenetic and pharmacological probing of hypocretin neurons in impulsivity. Communications Biology, 6:74
  • González O.C., Sokolov Y., Krishnan G.P., Delanois J.E., Bazhenov M. (2020). Can Sleep Protect Memories from Catastrophic Forgetting? eLife, 9:e51005