Sobre Mi:
I am originally from Lima-Peru and migrated to Chicago in 1993 at the age of 15. I finished my high school at Roosevelt High School and did my undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
After a glance of time at the University of Michigan, I moved to Arizona State University to finish my Ph.D. in computational neuroscience.
I am currently a PhD candidate and I am projected to finished my degree in August 2010.
Información de proyecto:
The theoretical framework of my research is a mathematical and computational analysis to identify how the augmentation of intracellular DA concentration presented after neural degeneration could be explained in terms of the steps involved in turnover and DA neurons firing activity. In particular, I will study how the effects of firing activity, found after neural loss, in surviving MDNs affects DA synthesis production and impulse-induced release. This topic is of particular importance since experimental evidence in support of a global hypothesis that the intracellular (cytoplasmic) concentration of DA is augmented early after 6-OHDA has been found inconclusive