The goal of the Lab is to develop new treatments and work towards a cure for epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders using a range of innovative approaches in experimental systems.
The Lab studies mechanisms of cerebral cortical circuit function and circuit dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders. Investigators in the lab use mouse and human genetics, electrophysiology, pharmacology, imaging, optogenetics, and behavior, in a range of experimental model systems ranging from heterologous cells in culture, neurons generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human patients, and ex vivo and in vivo in animal models of human disease. The lab is particularly interested in the function of a prominent subtype of neuron known as the GABAergic inhibitory interneuron and the role of interneuron dysfunction as a cause of disease.
News from the Lab
Congrats, Sophie !
Congratulations to Sophie Liebergall for receiving the 2022 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience!
Congrats, Melody!
Congratulations to undergraduate research intern Melody Cheng for being awarded the Velay Women’s Science Research Fellowship Program and the Ernest M. Brown, Jr. College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant.
Congratulations, Julie!
Julie Merchant -- now a third-year Neuroscience graduate student in the lab -- has been awarded a 3-Year National Research Service Award F31 Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute of Neurological...