Cellphysiology
Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology

Research program

- Modulation of ligand-gated ion channels

- Biophysical and pharmacological characterization of serotonin receptors (5-HT3)

- Characterization of functional properties of HCNG-channels in vertebrates and invertebrates

- Cloning and functional expression of transmitter-activated ion channels (GABA, glycine, glutamate, histamin, ACh)

- Functional expression of vertebrate olfactory receptors

- Patch-clamp recording of sensory neurons (in vertebrates and invertebrates)

- Investigation of ion channel assembly using transgenic mouse models

- Co-culture of sensory cells with central neurons

- Calcium-imaging in neuronal networks

- Expression cloning (Xenopus oocytes) of transmitter-activated ion channels

- Computer models (self organizing networks) for the investigation of information processing in the olfactory system

- Transgenic animals and their impact on synaptic information processing