focuses on understanding how the structure, biophysical properties, and synaptic connections of a neuron influence its signal processing function within the surrounding neural circuit.

a ribbon synapse from a rod photoreceptor to its neighboring cells. Art by David Goodsell, from Philip Nelson, From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision

The Geffen laboratory studies the neuronal mechanisms and circuits of auditory perception and learning.

uses theoretical techniques to study how organisms gather, process and respond to information.