Deisseroth Lab, Stanford University

Group Members

Principal Investigator

KARL DEISSEROTH
deissero at stanford.edu

Karl received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1992, his PhD from Stanford in 1998, and his MD from Stanford in 2000. He completed postdoctoral training, medical internship, and adult psychiatry residency at Stanford, and he was board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2006. He is Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry at Stanford. His bioengineering laboratory is located in the Clark Center, and he treats patients in a new interventional psychiatry-focused clinic at Stanford. In his spare time he likes flyfishing for trout and is trying to figure out flyfishing for bass.

Staff Scientists

Madhuri Roy
roym at stanfordalumni.org

Mani received her PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford and completed a mouse neurobehavioral fellowship in three years at Amgen/Tularik studying mouse genetic models of neuropsychiatric disease. She is a 2006 ACNP travel awardee.

BRET SCHNEIDER
schn at stanford.edu

Bret Schneider studies and develops neuromodulation technologies for interventional psychiatry and regenerative medicine. He obtained a BA from Washington University in St. Louis, an MD from Rush Medical College, and did a clinical residency in Psychiatry at UCLA. He completed a fellowship in Stereotactic Radiosurgery and a fellowship in Advanced Psychiatry at Stanford. Bret is presently Consulting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. As a board-certified psychiatrist, he has a private practice in Palo Alto specializing in the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

Post-docs

	LIPING WANG lpwang at stanford.edu Liping Wang received his medical degree from Chengde Medical College, Chengde, China and worked on neurosurgery and thoracic surgery before pursuing his PhD. In his PhD study, he has been involved in the International Graduate Program in Medical Neuroscience at Charité- University Medicine Berlin, Germany and work with Prof. Dr. Helmut Kettenmann at the Dept. of Cellular Neurosciences, Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin, on the study of the electrophysiological properties of neural progenitor cells in adult brain. Research Interests: Neural stem cells, electrophysiology
	VIKAAS SOHAL vikaassohal at gmail.com Vikaas received his bachelor degree from Harvard and MD/PhD from Stanford. He is currently a medical resident in psychiatry.
	KIM THOMPSON thompski at stanford.edu
	MELISSA WARDEN mwarden at stanford.edu Melissa received her A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Systems Neuroscience from MIT. During her graduate work with Earl Miller in systems neurophysiology, she studied the neural basis of multi-item short term memory in the prefrontal cortex.

Graduate Students

	LESLIE MELTZER lmeltzer at stanford.edu Leslie graduated from Brandeis University in 2003 with Bachelors degrees in Biology and Neuroscience, and she is currently enrolled in the Neuroscience Ph.D Program. Her graduate research focuses on the functional significance of neural stem cells to the treatment of depression.
	RAAG AIRAN rairan at stanford.edu Raag graduated from MIT in 2003 with bachelor degrees in Physics and Math and did his junior-year abroad studying Physics at Cambridge University. He is in Stanford's MD/PhD (MSTP) program and the Bioengineering Department. Currently, Raag is working on using voltage-sensitive dye imaging to visualize electrical activity propagation across slices created from models of psychiatric disease.
	FENG ZHANG zhangf at stanford.edu Feng graduated from Harvard in 2004 with a bachelor degree in Chemistry and Physics. He is a graduate student in the Chemistry Department.
	VIVIANA GRADINARU viviana at stanford.edu Viviana graduated from Caltech in 2005 with a bachelor degree in Biology. She is a graduate student in the Neuroscience Ph.D Program.
	HSING-CHEN TSAI hct at stanford.edu Hsing-Chen received her B.S. in Medical Technology in 1998 from Chang Gung Medical School in Taiwan. She furthered her training and obtained an MS in Molecular and Cell Biology from the same University in 2000. In 2003, she obtained an MS in Molecular Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently enrolled in the Neuroscience Ph.D Program at Stanford.
	MURTAZA MOGRI mmogri at stanford.edu Murtaza graduated with Bachelors degrees in Bioengineering/Biotechnology and Math/Computer Science from UC San Diego where his research focus was in bioinformatics and systems biology. After graduating in 2004, he worked at Nellcor/Tyco Healthcare developing a novel noninvasive medical device. Before Stanford, he also worked at NINDS (NIH) in Dr. Jeffrey Smith's lab as an ORAU post-bac fellow where he automated the analysis of electrophysiology data, studied the persistent sodium channel, and helped develop a new dynamic clamp program. Murtaza is currently a graduate student in Bioengineering.
	RAGU VIJAYKUMAR rvjkumar at stanford.edu

Undergrads


ELLORA KARMAKAR		HANNAH BERNSTEIN and ALICE KWAN

Alumni


RAGHU YABALURI M.S. 2005	NANDHINI NANDIWADA SANTHANAM M.S. 2007	YUQING GONG M.S. 2006

ED BOYDEN POSTDOC 2005-2006	CATHY HAN M.S. 2007	VICKI PARENTE B.S. 2007

MYRIAM CORDEY POSTDOC 2005-2006	ALBRECHT STROH POSTDOC 2006-2007	ALEX ARAVANIS POSTDOC 2006-2007