Vivian Gonzalez-Perez, PhD

Vivian is originally from Cuba where she graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Havana. She moved to Chile in 2003 where she pursued her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Valparaiso. Later, she completed her training at the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Lingle at Washington Univ. Dept. of Anesthesiology, first as a Postdoc and then as an Instructor. Her research interest focuses on understanding how the function of membrane ion channels modulates cellular responses in excitable (neurons) and non-excitable cells (particularly glial and epithelial cells) to maintain homeostasis and how their dysregulation contributes to chronic inflammatory diseases.