Our research concerns the roles of spontaneons electrical activity in the development of the nervous system. Experiments we are doing now ask how such activity is controled and what roles it plays in nervous system development. We use patch clamp and calcium imaging methods on living slices of devloping mouse brain to study these questions. The laboratory is small, with people at all levels (faculty from other universities on sabbatical visits, technicians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates; not all necessarily at the same time) working closely together.
