Dr. Cascio received his Ph.D in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Columbia University in 1988. He joined the department in 1994 after conducting post-doctoral research at Scripps Research Institute and Yale University. The major interest of his laboratory is correlating the structure and function for membrane protein receptors and channels, primarily neuroreceptors. Utilizing recent biotechnological advances, his laboratory is reexamining overexpressed recombinant human glycine receptors. This receptor is part of a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels critical in transmission of synaptic signals. Read full bio