Andreea Bostan

Title/Position
Research Assistant Professor, Neurobiology Dept., Strick Lab
Research Interests

The overarching goal of my research is to understand the organization and function of neural circuits at the interface between movement, thought, and emotion.

Recent Publications
  1. Kakei S, Bostan AC, Ebner TJ, Fakharian MA, Gomi H, Guell X, Hemelt M, Hoang H, Hull C, Inoue M, Ishikawa T, Kameda M, Kawato M, Kitazawa S, Manto M, Medina JF, Mitoma H, Ohmae K, Ohmae S, Okada K, Popa LS, Schmahmann JD, Shadmehr R, Strick PL, Tanaka H, Tanaka M, Yamazaki T (2026). Consensus Paper: Models of cerebellar functions. Cerebellum 25 (1): 12. DOI: 10.1007/s12311-025-01939-3. PubMed PMID: 41661363.
  2. Kase D, Zimnik AJ, Han Y, Harsch DR, Bacha S, Cox KM, Bostan AC, Richardson RM, Turner RS (2025). Movement-related activity in the internal globus pallidus of the parkinsonian macaque. Journal of Neurophysiology, 134, 741-765. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00611. PubMed PMID: 40695735.
  3. He J, Phan BN, Kerkhoff WG, Alikaya A, Hong T, Brull OR, Fredericks JM, Sedorovitz M, Srinivasan C, Leone MJ, Wirfel MW, Brown A, Dauby S, Tittle RK, Lin MK, Hooks BM, Bostan AC, Gharbawie OA, Byrne LC, Pfenning AR, Stauffer WR (2025). Machine learning identification of enhancers in the rhesus macaque genome. Neuron, 113 (10), P1548-1561.E8. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.030. PubMed PMID: 40403706.
  4. Sendhilnathan N, Bostan AC, Strick PL, Goldberg ME (2024). A cerebro-cerebellar network for learning visuomotor associations. Nature Communications,15(1):2519. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46281-0. PubMed PMID: 38514616. 
  5. He J, Kleyman M, Chen J, Alikaya A, Rothenhoefer KM, Ozturk BE, Wirthlin M, Bostan AC, Fish K, Byrne LC, Pfenning AR, Stauffer WR (2021). Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.015. PubMed PMID: 34727523
  6. Bostan AC & Strick PL (2018). The basal ganglia and the cerebellum: nodes in an integrated network. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 19, 338-350. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-018-0002-7. PubMed PMID: 29643480
  7. Bostan AC, Dum RP, Strick PL (2013). Cerebellar networks with the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. Trends in Cognitive Science, 17(5), 241-254. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.03.003. PubMed PMID: 23579055
  8. Bostan AC, Dum RP, Strick PL (2010). The basal ganglia communicate with the cerebellum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(18), 8452-8456. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000496107. PubMed PMID: 20404184