BARRY CONDRON
Associate Professor of Biology
Email: bc4f@virginia.edu
Office: (434) 243-6593
Lab: (434) 243-6794
Office: 071 Gilmer Hall
EDUCATION
B.S., University College, Cork, Ireland, 1985
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1991
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My lab is interested in how the cellular architecture of neurons dictates their function. We mostly focus on one serotonergic neuron, a type of cell that plays a critical role in diseases of human emotion. We have built a large repertoire of biological information about one point in the life of this cell in a model organism, and are using this to develop a systems-level understanding of its function. In order to further apply this structural approach, we are developing methods to scan the structures of all neurons in a part of the CNS. We are using this to assay global community-type changes in the nervous system is response to various insults.
For more information about research interests, visit my lab website.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Chen, John and Barry Condron. Regulating the branch structure of a CNS neuron. (2008) Developmental Biology, 2008, 320:30-38.
Sykes, Paul and Barry G. Condron (2005) Development and sensitivity to serotonin of serotonergic varicosities. Developmental Biol. 286:207-216.
Couch, Jessica, John Chen, Heather Rieff, Ellen Uri and Barry G. Condron (2004) The axon guidance molecule robo2 regulates serotonergic differentiation. Development 131:997-1006.
Condron, Barry G. (2002) The role of gene expression in growth cone guidance. Current Biology 12:1665-1670.