Techniques

We employ several techniques in our laboratory including the following:

Electrophysiological Recording

• Whole-cell voltage and current patch-clamp technique
• Single channel patch-clamp recording
• Perforated patch-clamp recording
• Artificial lipid bilayer single channel recording

Molecular, biochemical, and cell biological techniques:

• Molecular cloning
• Western blotting
• Immunoprecipitation
• Immunostaining
• RT-PCR
• Transgenic gene expression

Optical/Imaging techniques

• Bi-molecular fluorescence complementation
• Fluorescence energy resonance transfer
• Confocal imaging
• Electron microscopy

Physiological assays

• In vitro muscle contraction
• In vivo muscle performance assays