A Short Biography:
Dr. Faas attended college at the University of Amsterdam. After obtaining his M.Sc. in biology, he became a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Wytse Wadman at the same university. For his thesis, he studied voltage dependent calcium currents in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells in the kindling epileptogenesis model. For his first postdoc he decided to change fields and work in heart physiology. Dr. Faas worked for two and a half years studying the effects of excessive training on the heart at the Utrecht University with Drs. Schiereck, Mosterd and, Jongsma. He then decided to go back into neurophysiology and joined the lab of Dr. Peter Saggau at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He learned the finer details of microscopy and imaging techniques. Then, in collaboration with Dr. Rob Gereau, Dr. Faas studied the effects of mGluR on presynapic calcium signaling. Since September 2002 Dr. Faas works in the Modylab where he has his own project.
Publications:
A selected list of publications:
Tong Xiaoping, Ao Yan, Faas Guido C, Nwaobi Sinifunanya E, Xu Ji, Haustein Martin D, Anderson Mark A, Mody Istvan, Olsen Michelle L, Sofroniew Michael V, Khakh Baljit S
Astrocyte Kir4.1 ion channel deficits contribute to neuronal
dysfunction in Huntington's disease model mice
Nature neuroscience,
2014; 17(5):
694-703.
