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Tanzil M. Arefin, Ph.D.

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Dr. Tanzil M. Arefin is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and the Associate Director of the Preclinical Imaging Core at the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN). Before joining the URMC, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Pennsylvania...
Dr. Tanzil M. Arefin is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and the Associate Director of the Preclinical Imaging Core at the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN). Before joining the URMC, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University and the Assistant Director of the Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research (CNMHR).

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Neuroscience (SMD)

Credentials

Education

Ph.D. | University of Freiburg and University of Strasbourg. Neuroscience. 2017

M.Sc. | Czech Technical University and University of Groningen. Biomedical Engineering. 2012

B.Sc. | Islamic University of Technology. Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2007

Awards

Magna cum Laude award.

Summa Cum Laude award.

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) Fellowship.

Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses (EMMC) Fellowship.

Research

Publications

Journal Articles

Quantifying the Fascicular Changes in Recovered Achilles Tendon Patients Using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Tractography.

Rahimnezhad S, Arefin TM, Bai X, Neuberger T, Cortes D

Journal of engineering and science in medical diagnostics and therapy.. 2025 August 18 (3):031006. Epub 10/16/2024.

Cerebellar output neurons can impair non-motor behaviors by altering development of extracerebellar connectivity.

Lee AS, Arefin TM, Gubanova A, Stephen DN, Liu Y, Lao Z, Krishnamurthy A, De Marco García NV, Heck DH, Zhang J, Rajadhyaksha AM, Joyner AL

Nature communications.. 2025 February 2116 (1):1858. Epub 02/21/2025.

Sex-specific signatures of GLP-1 and amylin on resting state brain activity and functional connectivity in awake rats.

Arefin TM, Börchers S, Olekanma D, Cramer SR, Sotzen MR, Zhang N, Skibicka KP

Neuropharmacology.. 2025 February 4 :110348. Epub 02/04/2025.

Cerebellar output neurons impair non-motor behaviors by altering development of extracerebellar connectivity.

Lee AS, Arefin TM, Gubanova A, Stephen DN, Liu Y, Lao Z, Krishnamurthy A, De Marco García NV, Heck DH, Zhang J, Rajadhyaksha AM, Joyner AL

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology.. 2024 July 8 Epub 07/08/2024.

Early adversity causes sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice.

Islam R, White JD, Arefin TM, Mehta S, Liu X, Polis B, Giuliano L, Ahmed S, Bowers C, Zhang J, Kaffman A

Biology of sex differences.. 2024 May 715 (1):39. Epub 05/07/2024.

Open-source versatile 3D-print animal conditioning platform design for in vivo preclinical brain imaging in awake mice and anesthetized mice and rats.

Ben Youss Z, Arefin TM, Qayyum S, Yi R, Zhang J, Zaim Wadghiri Y, Alon L, Yaghmazadeh O

Lab animal.. 2024 February 53 (2):33-42. Epub 01/26/2024.

Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization.

Carozza S, Holmes J, Vértes PE, Bullmore E, Arefin TM, Pugliese A, Zhang J, Kaffman A, Akarca D, Astle DE

Developmental psychobiology.. 2023 September 65 (6):e22405. Epub 1900 01 01.

Towards reliable reconstruction of the mouse brain corticothalamic connectivity using diffusion MRI.

Arefin TM, Lee CH, Liang Z, Rallapalli H, Wadghiri YZ, Turnbull DH, Zhang J

NeuroImage.. 2023 June 273 :120111. Epub 04/13/2023.

Using mesoscopic tract-tracing data to guide the estimation of fiber orientation distributions in the mouse brain from diffusion MRI.

Liang Z, Arefin TM, Lee CH, Zhang J

NeuroImage.. 2023 April 15270 :119999. Epub 03/05/2023.

Translational Structural and Functional Signatures of Chronic Alcohol Effects in Mice.

Degiorgis L, Arefin TM, Ben-Hamida S, Noblet V, Antal C, Bienert T, Reisert M, von Elverfeldt D, Kieffer BL, Harsan LA

Biological psychiatry.. 2022 June 1591 (12):1039-1050. Epub 02/23/2022.

Virtual mouse brain histology from multi-contrast MRI via deep learning.

Liang Z, Lee CH, Arefin TM, Dong Z, Walczak P, Shi SH, Knoll F, Ge Y, Ying L, Zhang J

eLife.. 2022 January 2811 Epub 01/28/2022.

Macroscopic Structural and Connectome Mapping of the Mouse Brain Using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Arefin TM, Lee CH, White JD, Zhang J, Kaffman A

Bio-protocol.. 2021 November 2011 (22):e4221. Epub 11/20/2021.

Early life stress causes sex-specific changes in adult fronto-limbic connectivity that differentially drive learning.

White JD, Arefin TM, Pugliese A, Lee CH, Gassen J, Zhang J, Kaffman A

eLife.. 2020 December 19 Epub 12/01/2020.

Acceleration of three-dimensional diffusion magnetic resonance imaging using a kernel low-rank compressed sensing method.

Zhang C, Arefin TM, Nakarmi U, Lee CH, Li H, Liang D, Zhang J, Ying L

NeuroImage.. 2020 April 15210 :116584. Epub 01/29/2020.

Increased Alcohol Seeking in Mice Lacking Gpr88 Involves Dysfunctional Mesocorticolimbic Networks.

Ben Hamida S, Mendonça-Netto S, Arefin TM, Nasseef MT, Boulos LJ, McNicholas M, Ehrlich AT, Clarke E, Moquin L, Gratton A, Darcq E, Harsan LA, Maldonado R, Kieffer BL

Biological psychiatry.. 2018 August 184 (3):202-212. Epub 02/09/2018.

Mapping GPR88-Venus illuminates a novel role for GPR88 in sensory processing.

Ehrlich AT, Semache M, Bailly J, Wojcik S, Arefin TM, Colley C, Le Gouill C, Gross F, Lukasheva V, Hogue M, Darcq E, Harsan LA, Bouvier M, Kieffer BL

Brain structure & function.. 2018 April 223 (3):1275-1296. Epub 11/06/2017.

Remodeling of Sensorimotor Brain Connectivity in Gpr88-Deficient Mice.

Arefin TM, Mechling AE, Meirsman AC, Bienert T, Hübner NS, Lee HL, Ben Hamida S, Ehrlich A, Roquet D, Hennig J, von Elverfeldt D, Kieffer BL, Harsan LA

Brain connectivity.. 2017 October 7 (8):526-540. Epub 1900 01 01.

Deletion of the mu opioid receptor gene in mice reshapes the reward-aversion connectome.

Mechling AE, Arefin T, Lee HL, Bienert T, Reisert M, Ben Hamida S, Darcq E, Ehrlich A, Gaveriaux-Ruff C, Parent MJ, Rosa-Neto P, Hennig J, von Elverfeldt D, Kieffer BL, Harsan LA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.. 2016 October 11113 (41):11603-11608. Epub 09/26/2016.