David Kleinfeld Laboratory at UCSD
 

Research

Active Sensation


Neocortical Microcirculation and Microstrokes


Patterned Electrical Activity


Techniques

In vivo as well as in vitro preparations, along with a broad array of techniques, are utilized in support of our research. Current techniques include: the use of ultrashort laser pulses to image as well as to perturb cells and tissue; cortical and brainstem slice physiology; intracellular recording; in vivo multisite extracellular recording; intracortical microstimulation; in vivo optical imaging to measure neuronal dynamics and blood flow dynamics; optically-guided in vivo recording; conditioned learning in rodents; histology and immunochemistry; nonlinear optical spectroscopy; construction of G-protein receptor-based indicators; modern analytical and numerical methods for data analysis and modeling.


Funding

We are grateful for generous past and continuing support from government and philanthropic sources. These include the National Institutes of Health (NIA, NIBIB, NIDA, NIMH, NINDS, NCRR, NIDCD), the National Science Foundation (DBI, IBN, IGERT, Physics), the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Human Frontiers Scientific Program, the Whitehall Foundation, the US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation, and the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation.

Students, fellows, and project scientists in the laboratory have received direct support from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Human Frontiers Scientific Program, and the National Institutes of Health (NIMH, NSRA).


Date Modified: 2/2007

David Kleinfeld, PhD
Physics Department
UC San Diego
dk@physics.ucsd.edu