Eve Marder & Leslie Griffith

Several years ago, Dr. Griffith was an expert biochemist and molecular biologist with no personal electrophysiological experience. Dr. Griffith's projects depend heavily on electrophysiology of flies with mutant CaM Kinase II genes.

Dr. Marder taught Dr. Griffith how to record electrophysiologically from larval Drosophila muscles and the Levitan lab taught her to do patch recordings. These experiences allowed Dr. Griffith to write a grant for this work that was funded by the National Science Foundation. Two trainees worked on these projects.

Dr. Griffith and Dr. Marder have also collaborated on a biochemical characterization of CaM Kinase II in lobster tissue, and have a joint publication describing this work.