Zhu Laboratory

LABORATORY LOCATION
Room 5050, Jordan Hall
1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
Phone: (434) 243-9562
Fax: (434) 982-3878

EXPERIMENTAL APPPROACHES

in vitro recording

2-Photon laser scanning microscopic image of CA1 neurons expressing Rap-GFP

2-Photon image of the dendritic spines of pyramidal neurons co-expressing GluR2L-GFP (green) and RFP (red) Immuno-electron microscopic image of GluR4-GFP at post-synaptic site Simultaneous recordings from Rap expressing and control cells being loaded with peptide G10 or S10

 in vitro recording  in vivo recording
 Multiple dual whole cell recordings (11 pairs)  from single layer 5 pyramidal neuron in vitro  Whole cell recording from tuft dendrite of layer 5 pyramidal neuron in vivo

POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Positions currently available for postdocs, MD-PhD and PhD students. Please contact Dr. Julius Zhu at jjzhu@virginia.edu