Denis A. Baylor

Title
Professor

Department
Neurobiology

Research Interests
Visual transduction.

Email
dbaylor@leland.stanford.edu

Phone
723-6510

Fax
725-3958

Address
Fairchild D237
Mail Code: 5125

Faculty Research Description
We are interested in the molecular mechanism of visual transduction. Our experimental methods include patch clamp and suction electrode recording, internal dialysis of single photoreceptor cells, and study of transgenically-altered photoreceptors.

Rieke F., Baylor D.A.(1996). Molecular origin of continuous dark noise in rod photoreceptors. Biophys. J. 71(5):2553-2572.

Baylor D.A.(1996). How photons start vision. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 93:560-565

Xu, J., Dodd, R.L., Makino, C.L., Simon, M.I., Baylor, D.A., Chen, J.(1997). Prolonged photoresponses in transgenic mouse rods lacking arrestin. Nature 389: 505-509.

Rieke, F. and Baylor, D.A. "Single-photon detection by rod cells of the retina." Revs. Mod. Physics 70(3): 1027-1036 (1998).

Rieke, F. and Baylor, D.A. "Origin of reproducibility in the responses of retinal rods to single photons." Biophys. J. 75: 1836-1857 (1998).

Areas of Study
Cellular Neurobiology
Membrane Excitability
Molecular Neurobiology
SBRC
Ph.D.