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
Farrants H, Shuai Y, Lemon WC, Monroy Hernandez C, Zhang D, Yang S, Patel R, Qiao G, Frei MS, Plutkis SE, Grimm JB, Hanson TL, Tomaska F, Turner GC, Stringer C, Keller PJ, Beyene AG, Chen Y, Liang Y, Lavis LD, Schreiter ER. 2024 A modular chemigenetic calcium indicator for multiplexed in vivo functional imaging. Nat Methods, 21(10):1916-1925. PMCID: PMC11466818