When:
Friday, April 29, 2016
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Ward Building, 5-230, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Donna Daviston
(312) 503-1687
Group: Department of Neuroscience Seminars
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Bruce Bean, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
“Control of Neuronal Firing by
Kv1, Kv2, Kv3, Kv4, Kv7, BK, and
SK Channels”
Action potentials in different type of mammalian neurons
differ widely in shape and especially in patterns of firing.
Much of the diversity in firing patterns reflects differences in
expression of voltage- and calcium-activated potassium
channels. We seek to understand how firing patterns of
mammalian neurons are controlled by particular potassium
channels, using recordings from acutely dissociated neurons
and brain slice together with a variety of pharmacological
tools. A long-term goal is to exploit this knowledge to design
new strategies for preferentially altering neuronal firing in
the treatment of disease.