Welcome to my web page. I am an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton College, where I teach Introductory Biology (Biol-126), Human Physiology (Biol 232) and Neurobiology (Biol 386). I help lead the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative. I am interested in how the nervous system acquires, processes, and relays information, which I approach by studying the cellular mechanisms underlying sensory transduction and synaptic transmission in various sensory systems.