Joseph Travers

Research Description:

Sensory information from the periphery is transformed/processed by the central nervous system by the interaction of synaptic inputs onto a cell interacting with constitutive membrane ion channels that control neural excitability. We are currently exploring how hyperpolarization-sensitive potassium channels interact with GABAergic inhibition to influence throughput in a first order sensory nucleus using in vitro patch clamp neurophysiology combined with optogenetics and real-time dynamic clamp computer modeling.