Eva So
BSc (Hons) DML
Ion Channels and Human Disease Group
Contact details
Email: eva.so@florey.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)3 8344 4564
Supervisor
PhD Project Title
- The developmental role of inhibitory interneurons in absence epilepsy.
Research Interests
- Morphological (neuronal connectivity, migratory position) and electrophysiological impacts of an absence epilepsy mutation on inhibitory cells in the brain.
Laboratory Techniques
- Immunohistochemistry
- Free floating and slide mounted
- Tyramide Signalling Amplification
- Triple labelling
- BrdU injection and detection
- Lac Z detection
- Cell number positioning and analysis, synapse detection and analysis
- Animal perfusion and brain dissection
- Tissue laser dissection
- Brain sectioning
- Cryostat, vibrotome, microtome
- Electrophysiology
- Brain slice preparation
- Patchclamping onto GFP image detected cells
- Experience in paired recordings, dendritic recording, cell free patches and calcium and fluoresence imaging
- Biocyting labelling post-electrophysiology
- Confocal and immunofluoresence microscope
- Stacks
- Software
- SPOT, Image Pro Plus, Image J, DP controller, DP manager, HEKA, Axon instruments, NEURON, AxoGraph, MultiClamp, pClamp, Clampfit
Additional Information
- Student representative in Students of the Howard Florey Institute (2004, 2006)
- The Olympus Life Science Research Postgraduate Travel Award (2006)
- Selected for Australian Course in Advanced Neuroscience (2006)
- Young Achievement Australia – Biotechnology Entrepreneur Program: Provisional Patent Submission (Filing Number: AU-2006 903502) “Devise for diagnosis, research and teaching”
Publications and Articles
Please see PubMed.
Vicki Hammond, Eva So, Jenny Gunnersen, Helen Valcanis, Michael Kalloniatis, and Seong-Seng Tan. “Layer Positioning of Late-Born Cortical Interneurons Is Dependent on Reelin But Not p35 Signaling.” J Neuroscience (2006) 26(5): 1646-1655.
Students
