Email

rasband@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor and Vivian L. Smith Endowed Chair in Neuroscience

Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Director

Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

PhD from University Of Rochester

01/1999 - Rochester, New York United States

Biophysics

Post-Doctoral Fellowship at State University Of New York At Stony Brook

01/2002 - Stony Brook, New York United States

BS from Brigham Young University

04/1994 - Provo, Utah United States

Physics

Websites

Selected Publications

• Hamdan H, Lim BC, Torii T, Joshi A, Konning M, Smith C, Palmer DJ, Ng P, Leterrier C, Oses-Prieto JA, Burlingame AL, Rasband MN. "Mapping axon initial segment structure and function by multiplexed proximity biotinylation." Nature Communications. 2020;11:100. Pubmed PMID: 31900387
• Zhang C, Joshi A, Liu Y, Sert O, Haddix SG, Teliska LH, Rasband A, Rodney GG, Rasband MN. "Ankyrin-dependent Na+ channel clustering prevents neuromuscular synapse fatigue." Current Biology. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 34289389
• Stevens SR, Longley CM, Ogawa Y, Teliska LH, Arumanayagam AS, Nair S, Oses-Prieto JA, Burlingame AL, Cykowski MD, Xue M, Rasband MN. "Ankyrin-R regulates fast-spiking interneuron excitability through perineuronal nets and Kv3.1b K+ channels." Elife. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 34180393
• Zhang W, Palfini VL, Wu Y, Ding X, Melton AJ, Gao Y, Ogawa Y, Rasband MN. "A hierarchy of PDZ domain scaffolding proteins clusters the Kv1 K+ channel protein complex at the axon initial segment." Sci Adv.. 2025;11(21):eadv1281. Pubmed PMID: 40408471