Univesity of Maryland: Department of Biology

Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus is found to correspond to learning and memory. My Project involves the regulation of specific protein receptors called AMPA receptors by phosphorylation.

I am using a water maze to assess if visual activity recovery from dark exposure is passive or active.

My research interest is defining and locating the neural/muscular control of defensive displays in female praying mantis species parasphendale agrionina, and placing this information in the context of the evolution of defensive displays in all mantises as well as the evolution of mantis hearing.

My name is Grace Ji and I am currently a junior. I am majoring in physiology and neurobiology and minoring in Spanish. I research in Dr. Lee's lab and research the effects of chemical LTD and how the physical changes in the morphology of dendritic spines correlate to their functionality in synaptic strength.

My project involves working with Astyanax mexicanus fish studying the role of lipids in the eye using immunohistochemistry and gene cloning techniques.

I am conducting research in the Department of Nutrition, where I am investigating a liver enzyme's role in obesity and whether it can be knocked down, via RNAi, to create a potential therapeutic agent.

The goal of my research project is to elucidate the functional role of a specific region of the mechanosensitive channel of small conductance (MscS), a bacterial ion channel that gates in response to memebrane stretch.

I am currently investigating factors that lead to rejuvenation using oligochaetes as a study system. I am interested in the role that repeated injury (amputation of posterior segments, which followed by regeneration of those segments) plays in rejuventation and increasing longevity.

I'm a junior biology major working with Daphne Soares in the Biology Department and Carol Keefer in Animal Sciences. I am studying gender expression in transgenic zebra fish.

My research is in the field of Olfaction, specifically, I am using electrophysiology and imaging techniques to study the functional integration of new born neurons in the adult olfactory bulb.

I study the phosphorylation of the AMPA receptor subunit GluR1 in the visual cortex of mice that have been reared in various lighting conditions (i.e. normal reared, dark reared, and dark reared then re-exposed to light) with the ultimate goal of gaining insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying specific forms of synaptic plasticity (i.e. LTP and LTD) that are associated with learning and memory.

I am working to characterize the tumorgenesis and vascular alterations that result from Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene knockout in pancreatic endocrine and exocrine tissue.

Understand the neural circuits in developing visual cortex.