PEZ-BENDITO LAB

Our research is supported by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, La Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), La Conselleria d'Innovació, Universitats, Ciencia I Societat Digital of Generalitat Valenciana, La Caixa Foundation, the European Research Council (ERC) and the ERA-NET Neuron. Thanks to their support, we have been contributing to understanding the mechanisms by which our brain is wired during development... Within these projects we are using several experimental programmes, these include: optical imaging, manipulation of gene expression in vivo, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, cell culture, sensory deprivation paradigms and electrophysiology (see Nat Neurosci 15, 1134-43 (2012); J Neurosci 32, 4372-85 (2012); Curr Biol 21, 1748-55 (2011); PLoS Biology 7, e98 (2009), J Neurosci 27, 3395-407 (2007), Cell 125, 127-42 (2006), Nat Rev Neurosci 4, 276-8 (2003). Furthermore, our team has successfully set up the technique of in utero electroporation to..