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Lisa Gunaydin
Neurosciences
Bio-X
Graduate Student Fellowships 2008/2009
Professor Karl Deisseroth (Bioengineering, Psychiatry)
Elucidating the neurobiological basis of social behavior is critical to understanding normal human behavior and its dysregulation in psychiatric diseases like autism. Lisa is studying the neural circuits involved in social behavior using light-activated microbial opsins that their lab has engineered for fast optical control of neural activity. These optogenetic tools provide high spatiotemporal resolution in probing the activity of specific cell types within large neuronal populations, which will help elucidate the basic circuit dynamics underlying this complex behavior.
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