Yeka Aponte
Dr. Aponte received her Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg. Working with Prof. Dr. Peter Jonas she studied the functional properties of hyperpolarization-activated cation channels and dendritic calcium dynamics in fast-spiking hippocampal interneurons. During her postdoctoral work with Dr. Scott Sternson at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (JFRC/HHMI), she studied neuronal circuits controlling feeding behaviors using optogenetic techniques in awake, behaving mice. She also applied in vivo electrophysiological methods to molecularly-defined neuron populations. She is now a Tenured Principal Investigator at the NIH/NIDA IRP and her laboratory uses a combination of optogenetics, chemogenetics, electrophysiology, functional imaging, and behavioral assays to elucidate the neuronal mechanisms regulating survival behaviors such as food intake and nociception.
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