Dr. Tim Jegla Pennsylvania State University, USA

Tim Jegla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Penn State University. He began to study ion channel evolution as a graduate student and received his Ph.D. from Washington University, St. Louis in 1996. He has worked in both industry and academia, exploring topics ranging from ion... read morechannel drug discovery to the role of ion channels in sensory biology. His current work focuses on exploring the physiological role of ancient conserved K+ channel families in the mammalian nervous system.