Charles J. Wilson PhD

Charles J. Wilson, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of the Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the Bachelor of Arts at the University of Colorado. Dr. Wilson's lab studies the circuitry and neurons of the basal ganglia, with the goal of understanding the computational function of these structures at the cellular level, and their dysfunction in diseases, especially Parkinson's Disease. Their experiments are focused on the ionic mechanisms that endow each cell type with its characteristic responses to synaptic input, the patterns of connectivity that deliver specific inputs to each cell, and the dynamics that arise from the combination of these.