David S Weiss, Ph.D.

• Professional Background

  Education

  • 1987 - PhD - Neuroscience - Baylor College of Medicine
  • 1980 - BA - Biology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Postdoctoral Training - Biophysics - University of Miami School of Medicine

  Appointments

  • 12/2010 - Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Dielmann Chair in Basic Biomedical Investigation - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San AntonioSan Antonio

• Instruction & Training

  • 1/2009 - Present, Pre-Doctoral Student Supervision, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • 1/2009 - Present, Ph.D. Dissertations Directed, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • 1/2008 - Present, Ph.D. Dissertations Directed, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • 6/2007 - Present, Pre-Doctoral Student Supervision, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • 1/2007 - Present, Ph.D. Dissertations Directed, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

• Research & Grants

  Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission

  Structure and function of postsynaptic GABA receptors

  Related diseases: anxiety, epilepsy, Down’s Syndrome, insomnia

  Techniques: molecular biology, electrophysiology, site-specific fluorescence spectroscopy