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Maria Bykhovskaia
Professor
Department of Neurology
Wayne State University
United States
Biography
Dr. Bykhovskaia is a tenured Professor at the Department of neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Her lab has expertise in cellular, molecular, and computational neuroscience, and the research program in the lab is focused on fundamental mechanistic problems in synaptic transmission. Her Ph.D. training was in computational biophysics and molecular modeling. Subsequently, she used a postdoc in neuroscience to initiate a career devoted to the study of presynaptic mechanisms and plasticity. As a PI, she developed in her lab the expertise in electrophysiology, live confocal imaging, and electron microscopy, and these experimental approaches are combined with mathematical and computational modeling. The research in the lab has been continuously supported by the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. She has served as a member of review panels at the National Institute of health, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Research Interest
Research is focused on molecular machinery that controls the release of neuronal transmitters and from nerve terminals. Neuronal transmitters are packaged into synaptic vesicles and released by fusion of the vesicles with the neuronal membrane.