Associate Professor

Graduate Training: Stanford
Fellowship: University of California, Irvine

Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
West Virginia University School of Medicine
One Medical Center Drive
P.O. Box 9128 Health Sciences Center
Morgantown, WV 26506-9128
t: 304-293-0602
f: 304-293-8159
e: aric.agmon@gmail.com

Research Interests

My lab studies synaptic circuitry and synaptic development in the cerebral cortex (hippocampus and neocortex), with emphasis on thalamocortical connections and feedforward inhibition. We record from mouse brain slices using the whole-cell patch clamp method, and we visualize neurons by transfecting them with green fluorescent protein using a gene gun, or by generating transgenic mice in which specific populations of neurons contain green fluorescent protein.

Biolistic: a cortical interneuron transfected with green fluorescent protein (GFP) using a gene gun.