The people behind the work.
Discovery is rarely solitary. The Stecina Lab brings together people with different skills and perspectives to ask how spinal circuits work, what carries forward across experiments and data, and what can be learned in people after injury.
Katinka Stecina, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR — SYSTEMS PHYSIOLOGY
Katinka Stecina is a systems physiologist fascinated by how much the spinal cord can do on its own. Her research looks at how spinal circuits organize movement, reflexes, and postural control, how those networks interact with the rest of the nervous system, and which discoveries remain useful when the same questions are asked in people after spinal cord injury. More recently, the lab is also exploring what years of existing experimental data can teach us about which questions are worth asking next.
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