#  Rachel Wolfson 

Assistant Professor

 

 

 



   ![Rachel](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2024-10/Untitled%2013.jpg?itok=th_35FMO) 

 



 

 email [rachel\_wolfson@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:rachel_wolfson@hms.harvard.edu) 

Harvard Medical School  
Seeley Mudd, Room 511  
250 Longwood Ave  
Boston, MA 02115

 

 



 

Research in the Wolfson lab is focused on understanding how we sense our internal environment. Sensory neurons that innervate internal organs have cell bodies that reside in the dorsal root ganglia, the DRG sensory neurons. These neurons must respond to a diversity of stimuli under physiologic and pathophysiologic circumstances and then control behavioral responses. For example, stomach innervating neurons respond to stretch to control food intake, while colon innervating neurons respond to inflammation to control pain responses. We use mouse genetics, electrophysiology, behavior, biochemistry, and molecular biology to define the neural circuits that underlie visceral sensation and understand the molecular mechanisms through which this diversity of stimuli are sensed.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Program Affiliation
    
     [Cell Biology](/bbs-faculty/cell-biology)
- ## Discipline
    
     [Cell Biology](/discipline/cell-biology) [Genetics](/discipline/genetics) [Imaging](/discipline/imaging) [Immunology](/discipline/immunology) [Molecular Biology](/discipline/molecular-biology) [Neuroscience](/discipline/neuroscience)
- ## Organism
    
     [Mouse](/organism/mouse)
- ## People
    
     [Faculty](/people/faculty)
- ## Location
    
     [Harvard Medical School](/location/harvard-medical-school)