Principal Investigator

Nicholas Vierra

Assistant Professor

School of Biological Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis School of Medicine (2017 - 2023)

PhD, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University (2017)

BS, Microbiology, CSU Chico (2012)

I performed my graduate work in David Jacobson's lab at Vanderbilt, where I studied the function of two-pore domain potassium (K2P) channels in pancreatic islets. I then did my postdoctoral work in Jim Trimmer's lab at UC Davis investigating ion channel signaling complexes in brain neurons.