Viviana Gradinaru Ph.D Candidate Neuroscience Stanford University
Contact info: Viviana Gradinaru Deisseroth Lab Clark Center, W080 318 Campus Drive West Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5435 Phone: 650.725.6176 Email: viviana at stanford.edu	Education B.S. in Biology with Honors, California Institute of Technology - 2005 C.V.
Click image for details	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.