John Tompkins

Tompkins Lab is a research laboratory based at the David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, within the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center Neurocardiology Research Program of Excellence. The lab works to define the peripheral neural circuitry controlling the heart, with a primary goal of developing detailed anatomic maps of neur... onal wiring. Its research focuses on the stellate ganglion, intrinsic cardiac neurons, and the effects of diabetes and myocardial infarction on peripheral neural pathways. The lab employs multidisciplinary approaches including cellular electrophysiology, confocal imaging, functional imaging, and transmission electron microscopy to study the structure and connectivity of neurons from the heart to the brain and spinal cord.Read More