Dr. Buskila is a senior research lecturer at the school of Medicine at Western Sydney University and a senior research fellow at the MARCS institute. He completed his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, in 2010. His thesis titled “Neuronal-Astrocytic Nitrosative Interactions” focused on the effects of the rapid release of Nitric Oxide (NO) from cortical astrocytes on their neighboring neurons. Following his Ph.D., he joined the lab of Prof. Graham Ellis-Davies (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) as a postdoctoral research fellow, where he studied the effect of β-amyloid on short and long-term synaptic dynamics of cortical pyramidal neurons using electrophysiological and 2-photon imaging techniques. In 2011, Dr Buskila joined the Bioelectronics and Neuroscience (BENS) research group (now part of the MARCS Institute) at the University of Western Sydney, first as a postdoctoral research fellow and later as a senior research fellow. Dr. Buskila's research focuses on signal processing of cortical neurons, with emphasis on neuronal-astrocytic interactions in neurodegenerative diseases. He uses multi-site electrophysiological recordings along with imaging techniques to measure and evaluate the way neurons and astrocytes communicate.