Computational Neurobiology Lab

Dr. Klaus M. Stiefel

stiefel@salk.edu

+1-858-453-4100, ext. 1489

I am interested in the functioning of neurons under nonstationary conditions like background oscillations or increased background noise levels. My approach includes patch-clamp recordings from acute brain slices and numerical simulations on a biophysical level.

I am using the Axon Instruments Axoclamp 2A amplifier and LabView 6.1 for data aquisition and NEURON for the numerical simulation of electrophysiological events.

Before I came to Salk I was doing research at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography , La Jolla, CA, USA, working on the motility of marine cyanobacteria, the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics of the University of Vienna, Austria, working on translation initiation, and the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, working on synaptic plasticity in the cerebral cortex (Ph.D. thesis).