1. Calcium imaging in the central nervous system cells

a.     Cortical Type I Astrocytes (BBRC, European Journal of Neuroscience, The Journal of Biological Chemistry)

1. Response to ATP in control and differentiated astrocytes

b.     Cortical Neurons (European Journal of Neuroscience)

2.  Structural imaging and Immunocytochemistry in the CNS

1. Cortical type I astrocytes: ER   (The journal of biological Chemistry)

2. Cortical type I astrocytes: actin cytoskeleton

3. Cortical type I astrocytes: actin cytoskeleton and GFAP

4. Cortical type I astrocytes: tubulin cytoskeleton

5. Cortical type I astrocytes: GFAP

6. MAP-2 in cortical neurons in culture

7. Parkin distribution in cortical neurons (European Journal of Neuroscience)

8. Cellular Prion protein distrubution in cortical neurons

3.  Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection

a.      Imaging viability with propidium and fluorescein (J. Neurochemistry)

b.     Viability biochemical assays (PNAS and J. Neurochemistry)

4.  Signal Transduction