The NeuroDrosophiLab of Nigel Atkinson
The NeuroDrosophiLab of Nigel Atkinson
About me
My B.S. is in Microbiology from Texas A&M. For my Ph.D. I studied yeast RNA processing at Hershey Medical Center of the Penn State University. I post-doc’d at The University of Wisconsin-Madison where I studied Drosophila neurogenetics and cloned the first example of a BK type Ca2+-activated K+ channel gene. Read more...
About the lab
We study the molecular mechanism underlying drug tolerance in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster.
We are housed in the Department of Neuroscience and belong to the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research. My laboratory is located on the second floor of the Patterson building. Read more about the Waggoner Center... Read more about Deparment of Neuroscience...
Press
DugDug article about our work.
I draw graduate students from the Molecular Biology program and from the Neuroscience Program. More about these programs.
Contact information
Office 512-232-3404
Lab Phone: 512-471-1629
Fax: 512-471-9651
U.S. Mail
Nigel Atkinson
The University of Texas at Austin
Neurobiology, Section of
1 University Station C0920
Austin, Texas 78712-0248
Fedex/Airborne
2400 Speedway PAT 140
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1064
Current Funding is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
©2014. Nigel S. Atkinson. All Rights Reserved