Molecular and Functional Aspects of Ion Channels, Receptors, and Transporters
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Mouse Genetic Models for Neuroscience Diseases
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Noteworthy
Henry Lester presented with the 2007 Kenneth S. Cole Award.
Forthcoming in Nature Medicine, January 2008: Henry A. Lester's Book Review of Allan M. Brandt's, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, Basic Books 2007.
September 2007 - Lester elected President of Biophysical Society.
August 2007 - “Two Nicotine Puzzles Explained.”
January 2007 - Lester named 2007 K. S. Cole Awardee.
May 2006 - Lester elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
May 2004 - A “Smoking Gun” for Nicotine Addiction.
October 2002 - Watson Lecture Series: The Response to Nicotine.
2002 - “Smoke Gets in Your Brain,” Engineering & Science, Volume LXV, No. 4.
July 2001 - “Building a Better Mouse.”
March 2001 - “Researchers Progress Toward Mutating a Mouse for Studying Parkinson's Disease.”
Special Notices
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We're Seeking a Webcam/Internet Hacker
- To setup a system for video monitoring of our special mice in Caltech's transgenic mouse facility.
We're Recruiting Postdocs and Graduate Students
Our projects range from the biophysics of Cys-loop receptors and transporters, through mouse models for neuroscience diseases. The lab would be a good experience for
- a Molecular Biologist looking to gain experience in electrophysiology or optics,
- a Physicist or Engineer hoping to contribute to the exciting biomedical problems of nicotine addiction, epilepsy, or Parkinson's disease,
- a Clinician wanting to learn basic neuroscience; or
- an Electrophysiologist hoping to learn mouse genetics.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Proposals are welcome.