Neuroscience Faculty Spotlight
Rocio Gomez-Pastor
The principal aim of my laboratory is to understand the molecular pathways that drive neuronal death in Huntington´s Disease (HD), an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG triplet repeat expansion within exon-1 of the Huntingtin gene (Htt).
Gordon Smith
The Smith Lab @ UMN uses advanced optical imaging techniques to investigate how large populations of neurons form the networks required to process visual information.