Peter W. Bass

Dr. Baas is professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine, where he is also the director of a multi- disciplinary graduate program in the neurosciences. Dr. Baas has studied neuronal microtubules in neurons for two decades, has published over 100 papers on the topic (including publications in the Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology and the Journal of Cell Biology), and currently collaborates in his department with a world-class group aimed at regenerative neuroscience. He was the first in the world to focus on microtubule-severing proteins in neurons and among the first to focus on the centrosome as a potential generator of microtubules for growing axons. He is an expert in a wide variety of morphological and functional assays on cultured neurons and especially on the contribution of microtubules.