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Guido Faas, Ph.D.

Welcome to my part of the ModyLab website. Judging by my first name or the photo on this page you might think I am Italian or Australian. However, I was born in The Netherlands and I grew up in Purmerend, a village close by Amsterdam.

Later I actually moved to Amsterdam to attend college at the University of Amsterdam . After obtaining my M.Sc. in biology, I became a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Wytse Wadman at the same university. For my thesis, I studied voltage dependent calcium currents in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells in the kindling epileptogenesis model (Somjen et al. 1993, Faas et al. 1996, Vreugdenhil et al. 1998, ). For my first postdoc I decided to change fields and work in heart physiology. I worked for two and a half years studying the effects of excessive training on the heart at the Utrecht University with Drs. Schiereck, Mosterd and, Jongsma. Although I had a good time and gained a lot of teaching experience there, I found out that heart physiology is not really the field for me. I decided to go back into neurophysiology and joined the lab of Dr. Peter Saggau at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Here I learned the finer details of microscopy and all kinds of imaging techniques. Of course there was also science to be done and, in collaboration with Dr. Rob Gereau, we studied the effects of mGluR on presynapic calcium signaling. I was happy to be back in neurophysiology and combine this with the use of optical techniques (Faas et al. 2002, Levy et al. 2003). Since September 2002 I work in the Modylab where I have my own project that differs a bit from what others are doing in the lab (Faas et al. 2005, Faas et al. 2007). Read more about that here.

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