Research Interests
- Synaptic protein function in neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
- Calcium's role in neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
- Synapse dis-function and disease
- Construction of recombinant virus
Publications
- Monica S. Montesinos, Zuxin Chen, and Samuel M. Young, Jr. pUNISHER: A high level expression cassette for use with recombinant viral vectors for rapid and long term in vivo neuronal expression in the CNS. J Neurophysiol. 106:3230-3244. (2011)
- Zuxin Chen, Frederique Varoqueax, Samuel M. Young, Jr. Analysis of the role of the Munc13 genes in synaptic transmission at the Calyx of Held synapse. 40th annual society for neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA(2010)
- Samuel M. Young, Jr., Zuxin Chen, Alexander Groh, Monica S Montesinos. Characterization of a novel Adenoviral vector expression system for high level expression in vitro and in vivo. 40th annual society for neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA (2010)