In addition to Dr. Scharfman her staff include:

 

Daniel Friedman, M.D.

Dr. Daniel Friedman has just finished training at University of Pennsylvania and will study basic mechanisms of seizures andepilepsy in mice with both physiological and computational approaches.

 

 

Vanessa Skucas

Vanessa Skucas received her B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is conducting electrophysiological studies in mice that have a deletion in aquaporin-4, the major water channel in astrocytes.

 

 

Patrice Pearce

Patrice Pearce is a graduate student in Neuroscience at NYU. She is studying how the hippocampus changes as a function of reproductive steroids such as estrogen, and potential role of BDNF in effects of estrogen.