Christian Monroy Hernández

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Yehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of New Orleans, 2018

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Exploring the mechanisms of intrinsic excitability of neurons

Exploring the control of neuronal excitability in Drosophila through the regulation of voltage-gated K+ ion channel activity and identifying how these channels modulate the neuronal homeostatic response to acute hyperexcitability.

Graduate publications