UCSF Neurological Surgery faculty since 1999
 
Read about Dr. Baraban's current research
 
Dr. Baraban's laboratory has active research projects on epilepsy associated with a malformed brain; seizures and seizure resistance in zebrafish; and anticonvulsant strategies using neural progenitor cells.
 
Education, Training, and Previous Positions
 
1987: BA, Johns Hopkins University
1994: PhD, University of Virginia
1994-1997: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Department of Neurological Surgery
1996-1997: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1997-1999: Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Departments of Pediatrics (1° appointment) and Neuroscience (2° appointment)
 
Selected Professional Memberships and Appointments
 
Society for Neuroscience
American Epilepsy Society
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1995: American Epilepsy Society and Milken Family Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
1998: Epilepsy Foundation of America, Junior Investigator Research Award
1999: March of Dimes Foundation, Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award
2000: Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, UCSF Innovation in Basic Science Award
2001: Symposium Faculty, The 21st Merritt-Putnam Symposium (Epilepsy and Disorders of Brain Development)
2003: Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
 
Contact
 
Scott C. Baraban PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
513 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143-0520
Phone: (415) 476-9473
email: baraban@itsa.ucsf.edu
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Jones DL, Baraban SC. Characterization of inhibitory circuits in the malformed hippocampus of Lis1 mutant mice. J Neurophysiol 2007;98(5):2737-46.
 
Baraban SC, Dinday MT, Castro PA, Chege S, Guyenet S, Taylor MR. A large-scale mutagenesis screen to identify seizure-resistant zebrafish. Epilepsia 2007;48(6):1151-7.
 
Baraban SC. Emerging epilepsy models: insights from mice, flies, worms and fish [Review]. Curr Opin Neurol 2007;20(2):164-8.
 
Wang Y, Greenwood JS, Calcagnotto ME, Kirsch HE, Barbaro NM, Baraban SC. Neocortical hyperexcitability in a human case of tuberous sclerosis complex and mice lacking neuronal expression of TSC1. Ann Neurol 2007;61(2):139-52.
 
Harrington EP, Möddel G, Najm IM, Baraban SC. Altered glutamate receptor - transporter expression and spontaneous seizures in rats exposed to methylazoxymethanol in utero. Epilepsia 2007;48(1):158-68.
 
Wang Y, Baraban SC. Granule cell dispersion and aberrant neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus of an LIS1 mutant mouse. Dev Neurosci 2007;29(1-2):91-8.
 
Paredes MF, Li G, Berger O, Baraban SC, Pleasure SJ. Stromal-derived factor-1 (CXCL12) regulates laminar position of Cajal-Retzius cells in normal and dysplastic brains. J Neurosci 2006;26(37):9404-12.
 
Alvarez-Dolado M, Calcagnotto ME, Karkar KM, Southwell DG, Jones-Davis DM, Estrada RC, Rubenstein JL, Alvarez-Buylla A, Baraban SC. Cortical inhibition modified by embryonic neural precursors grafted into the postnatal brain. J Neurosci 2006;26(28):7380-9.
 
Wang Y, Barbaro MF, Baraban SC. A role for the mTOR pathway in surface expression of AMPA receptors. Neurosci Lett 2006;401(1-2):35-9.
 
Paredes M, Pleasure SJ, Baraban SC. Embryonic and early postnatal abnormalities contributing to the development of hippocampal malformations in a rodent model of dysplasia. J Comp Neurol 2006;495(1):133-48.
 
Baraban SC, Taylor MR, Castro PA, Baier H. Pentylenetetrazole induced changes in zebrafish behavior, neural activity and c-fos expression. Neuroscience 2005;131(3):759-68.
 
Barbaro NM, Takahashi DK, Baraban SC. A potential role for astrocytes in mediating the antiepileptic actions of furosemide in vitro. Neuroscience 2004;128(3):655-63.
 
Calcagnotto ME, Paredes M, Baraban SC. Heterotopic neurons with altered inhibitory synaptic function in an animal model of malformation-associated epilepsy. J Neurosci 2002;22(17):7596-605.
 
Castro PA, Cooper EC, Lowenstein DH, Baraban SC. Hippocampal heterotopia lack functional Kv4.2 potassium channels in the methylazoxymethanol model of cortical malformations and epilepsy. J Neurosci 2001;21(17):6626-34.