{"id":10740,"date":"2017-10-18T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10740"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:44:19","slug":"christopher-v-gabel-phd","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/profile\/christopher-v-gabel-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher V. Gabel, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Research in our laboratory is focused around a common theme to understand how neuronal activity and cellular calcium signaling modulates neuronal response and regeneration following cellular damage. Employing the nematode worm\u00a0<\/span><em>C. elegans<\/em><span>\u00a0as a simple yet powerful model system, we pursue\u00a0<\/span><em>in vivo<\/em><span>\u00a0studies at both the single neuron and small circuit levels. Through our work and that of others,\u00a0<\/span><em>C. elegans<\/em><span>\u00a0has recently emerged as a powerful system for the study of neuronal damage and regeneration, following a long tradition of seminal findings in\u00a0<\/span><em>C. elegans<\/em><span>\u00a0with direct translation to mammalian systems. For our specific purposes its simple, completely mapped nervous system, small transparent body and amenable genetics make\u00a0<\/span><em>C. elegans<\/em><span>\u00a0an ideal test bed for novel biophotonic techniques and applications. The results are exciting, technologically driven breakthroughs that are pushing current understanding in regenerative neurobiology and small circuit function. As such, our laboratory is truly cross-disciplinary with engineers and biophysicists working side-by-side with traditional biologist. The technical expertise and ongoing research projects in the laboratory are as follows.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14097,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10742,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10740\/revisions\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}