Research Description

Research in the AxonGlia laboratory focuses on the understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of axon degeneration. The science is both fitting Cellular and Integrative Biophysics, for example studying bioenergetic and mitochondrial function in glia and neurons during injury, disease or aging, as well as Biological Spectroscopy and Imaging, for example by using optogenetics to change the bioenergetics of the cell.  Key questions that a student can address in the AxonGlia laboratory are centered around the cellular metabolic and signaling responses to nervous system injury in neurons and glia.