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Viviana Gradinaru
Ph.D
Candidate Neuroscience
Stanford University
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Education B.S.
in Biology with Honors,
California Institute of Technology - 2005
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Research Research Interests Viviana
is currently in the optogenetics lab of Prof. Karl Deisseroth. She works on
developing tools to control brain function and apply them to psychiatric
diseases. Her focus is on understanding the mechanism behind deep brain
stimulation in movement and mood disorders such as Parkinson’s and
depression.
Publications 1. Gradinaru
V, Mogri M, Thompson KR, Henderson JM, Deisseroth K. Optical
Deconstruction of Parkinsonian Neural Circuitry in press, Science.
Online in Science Express on March 19, 2009. 2. Gradinaru V, Thompson KR, Deisseroth
K. eNpHR: a Natronomonas halorhodopsin enhanced for optogenetic
applications. Brain Cell Biol. 2008 Aug;36(1-4):129-39. 3. Schneider
MB, Gradinaru V, Zhang F, Deisseroth K. Controlling neuronal
activity. Am J Psychiatry. 2008 May;165(5):562. 4. Gradinaru V, Thompson KR, Zhang F,
Mogri M, Kay K, Schneider MB, Deisseroth K. Targeting and readout
strategies for fast optical neural control in vitro and in vivo.
Cover Article. J Neurosci. 2007 Dec 26;27(52):14231-8. 5. Gradinaru V. “The Hippocampus: Our Guide through the Environment,” Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal Videos 1.
Optogenetics in action
– experiment described in J.Neurosci. article above
2.
An interview about the
Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) in Human Health (Jan
2009).
3.
Talk
for Stanford
Photonics Research Conference 2008
Teaching Viviana
is an instructor for the Optogenetics Module of the Advanced Techniques in
Molecular Neuroscience (ATMN) course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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