Research Interests
I am interested in identifying the connectivity patterns between brainstem centers that produce the rhythmogenic drive necessary for breathing. In addition to lesioning experiments and combined extracellular/whole cell clamp electrophysiological studies, I hope to utilize both optical and multi-electrode methods in order to better characterize rhythmic medullary structures.
 
Serapio M. Baca
Name: Serapio M. Baca
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Education:
PhD in Neurosciences, UCSD
MS in Neurosciences, UCSD
BA in Psychology, The Colorado College
 
Snail Mail
UCLA
Dept of Neurobiology
Box 951763
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763
 
Tel: (310) 825-1586
Fax: (310) 825-2224
 
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
 
Additional Publications
  1. 1.Marin-Burgin A, Eisenhart FJ, Baca SM, Kristan WB Jr, French KA. Sequential development of electrical and chemical synaptic connections generates a specific behavioral circuit in the leech. J Neurosci. 2005 Mar 9;25(10):2478-89.
  2. 2.Baca SM, Thomson EE, Kristan WB Jr. Location and intensity discrimination in the leech local bend response quantified using optic flow and principal components analysis.J Neurophysiol. 2005 Jun;93(6):3560-72. Epub 2005 Feb 2.
  3. 3.Jacobs B, Schall M, Prather M, Kapler E, Driscoll L, Baca S, Jacobs J, Ford K, Wainwright M, Treml M. Regional dendritic and spine variation in human cerebral cortex: a quantitative golgi study. Cereb Cortex. 2001 Jun;11(6):558-71.
  4. 4.Bower CM, Hyde TM, Zaka M, Hamid EH, Baca SM, Egan MF.Decreased mu-opioid receptor binding in the globus pallidus of rats treated with chronic haloperidol. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2000 Jun;150(3):260-3.
  5. 5.Spurney CF, Baca SM, Murray AM, Jaskiw GE, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM. Differential effects of haloperidol and clozapine on ionotropic glutamate receptors in rats. Synapse. 1999 Dec 15;34(4):266-76.
  6. 6.Hamid EH, Hyde TM, Baca SM, Egan MF. Failure to down regulate NMDA receptors in the striatum and nucleus accumbens associated with neuroleptic-induced dyskinesia. Brain Res. 1998 Jun 15;796(1-2):291-5.
  7. 7.Baca SM, Lipska BK, Egan MF, Bachus SE, Ferguson JN, Hyde TM. Effects of prefrontal cortical lesions on neuropeptide and dopamine receptor gene expression in the striatum-accumbens complex. Brain Res. 1998 Jun 22;797(1):55-64.
 
Funding
 
1. UCLA, Cellular Neurobiology Training Grant Postdoctoral Fellowship
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