Martin Wallner, PhD.
Researcher in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Wallner received a PhD in Chemistry in Austria from Graz University of Technology in 1995. By 2019 he has published 38 papers in peer reviewed journals, with a total of over 3590 citations and a Hirsch Index (H-index) of 30. His scientific work focuses on the structure and function of voltage and ligand gated ion channels. His Ph.D. Thesis at the Karl Franzens University in Graz was on voltage gated Na+ channels. In 1993 he moved as a post-doc to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX, to work on Ca2+ and voltage dependent K+ channels (with Profs. Ligia Toro and Enrico Stefani) and since 1994 he works in at the University of California in Los Angeles, initially as post-doc and since 1997 as a Researcher. From 2001 he works within Dr. Olsen’s group on GABAA receptors, the main inhibitory neurotransmitter receptors in the mammalian brains, in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles. The main focus of his Research are extrasynaptic δ subunit-containing GABAA receptors and his work suggests that these unique GABAA receptor subtypes not only mediate important aspects of low dose alcohol actions, and are also the main targets of muscimol, the psychoactive ingredient in the mushroom Amanita muscaria.
Articles Published in Annals of Translational Medicine
