Neurobiology of somatosensation

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Sensory neurons detect environmental cues that underlie touch, warming, cooling, itch, proprioception and pain. Using cutting edge technologies such as chemogenetics, neural tracing, electrophysiology and stem-cell technology, the Weir Lab studies how they do this and what changes in the system lead to debilitating forms of chronic pain. Our ambition is to define critical disease factors and to develop technologies capable of reversing them