Liang and Verma’s lab recently made headlines with their new NIH grant, featured on the front page of the Hartford Courant’s Sunday edition (10-12-2024) and highlighted on UConn news. Dr. Verma is collaborating with Dr. Liang on a project aimed at developing new stroke therapies using purinergic receptor P2X4 inhibitors. The NIH has awarded a […]

(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70319-4) Calcium imaging is a crucial and widely-used tool in modern systems neuroscience for monitoring neuronal activity. Typically, researchers assume that calcium transients reflect action potential firing. However, new findings by Milicevic et al. reveal that the strongest optical signals are generated when an action potential occurs on top of a plateau potential. Additionally, their […]