Maria Bykhovskaia, PhD - Biographical Sketch

                                 Principal Investigator:
                                Maria Bykhovskaia, PhD 
                        Professor, Department of Neurology

Dr. Bykhovskaia is a tenured Professor at the Department of neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Her lab has expertise in  cellular, molecular, and computational neuroscience, and the research program in the lab is focused on fundamental mechanistic problems in synaptic transmission. Her Ph.D. training was in computational biophysics and molecular modeling. Subsequently, she used a postdoc in neuroscience to initiate a career devoted to the study of presynaptic mechanisms and plasticity. As a PI, she developed in her lab the expertise in electrophysiology, live confocal imaging, and electron microscopy, and these experimental approaches are combined with mathematical and computational modeling. The research in the lab has been continuously supported by the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. She has served as a member of review panels at the National Institute of health, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences.