Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology and Neuroscience
- Email: eduardor@nospam.wustl.edu
Research
Rosa-Molinar is the WashU Center for Cellular Imaging (WUCCI) scientific director and a professor of Cell Biology & Physiology and Neuroscience. He has over 40 years of experience in adopting, developing and implementing imaging methodologies in both optical and electron microscopy. Rosa-Molinar previously served as the director of Microscopy and Analytical Imaging (MAI) Research Laboratory at the University of Kansas.
In addition, Rosa-Molinar runs a research program aimed at elucidating niche specialization of connexions in heterotypic electrical synapses found in neural microcircuits, and he utilizes optical and electron microscopy techniques to assay his research questions.
Rosa-Molinar develops and applies novel microscopy approaches to the study of neuronal connections that allow brain cells to communicate. Brain cells communicate to one another across synapses — small gaps between cells that allow chemical and electrical messages to pass from one neuron to the next. Rosa-Molinar studies the proteins in the cell membrane of brain cells that act as channels through which signals pass into the synapse.
Education
BA, University of Alabama
PhD, Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center