Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center

April 26, 2019

William Spain, MD

William Spain, MD

Professor
Neurology, Physiology and Biophysics

spain@uw.edu

Work Summary: My lab is identifying the rules for transducing synaptic input into frequency-coded trains of action potentials in neocortical neurons and brainstem auditory relay neurons. Because those neurons perform different functions, their transduction mechanisms contrast sharply.