Brandon Franklin
Bluegrass Community and Technical College; Lexington, KY; A.S. in Polysomnographic Technology; 2006-2008
I am a fifth year doctoral student in biology. My research is focused on in vivo cellular dynamics during wound healing and tissue-regeneration. Particularly, I am interested in how non-traditional ion channel signaling can influence cell behaviors such as macrophage activation/recruitment and mesenchymal cell proliferation. I use Axolotl salamanders and human embryonic cell lines to investigate the physiological mechanisms and specific signaling pathways involved in facilitating these processes. I am also involved in education research and our current project is investigating the effectiveness of various types of instruction at conveying complex physiological concepts to typically underachieving students.
University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY; Ph.D. in Biology; 2011-present