Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Primary Thematic Area
Secondary Thematic Area
Research Summary
We study signaling between neural tissues and bodily fluids, with a focus on specialized interfaces near brain ventricles to uncover their roles in health, disease, and therapeutic applications.
Publications
TRPV1 drugs alter core body temperature via central projections of primary afferent sensory neurons.
eLife
Dark noise and retinal degeneration from D190N-rhodopsin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Reply to Heck et al.: Signal amplification at the rhodopsin-to-transducin·phosphodiesterase step in rod phototransduction.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Elementary response triggered by transducin in retinal rods.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Synergistic Signaling by Light and Acetylcholine in Mouse Iris Sphincter Muscle.
Current biology : CB
Neuropsin (OPN5)-mediated photoentrainment of local circadian oscillators in mammalian retina and cornea.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Activation of visual pigments by light and heat.
Science (New York, N.Y.)