Juanita Mathews is a Senior Scientist in the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, where her research focuses on the bioelectric control of mammalian cells. Her work encompasses how cells use bioelectricity to communicate, learn, store memory, and differentiate. Her projects have included directed innervation, non-neuronal cell communication and conditioning, and currently the bioelectric manipulation of cancer. To this end, she leverages a variety of genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors, optogenetic constructs, and electrophysiological techniques.
