Research interests of the Lab
- Mechanisms of sensory mechanotransduction and thermotransduction in C. elegans.
- Analysis of mutations in putative transduction complexes using in vivo whole-cell patch clamp recordings of sensory neurons.
- Structure-function and pharmacological studies of transduction channel proteins and accessory subunits expressed in Xenopus oocytes.
- Neural mechanisms of thermotaxis behavior.
- Analysis of gene expression patterns in identified sensory neurons.
