Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory
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Understanding the mechanisms that govern the development and maintenance of synapses throughout the nervous system is of key importance as synaptic disorders contribute to a number of disease states. As such, this laboratory is concerned with the studying the synaptic connections between nerve cells and their targets: how they form, how they are maintained through life and how they may be modified in disease states. Research in this laboratory is focussed on those synapses found between motor neurons and muscle cells because studies of these have greatly advanced our understanding of synapses throughout the nervous system.
