Viviana Gradinaru, Ph.D. Consulting Assistant Professor Stanford University Co-Founder and CTO Circuit Therapeutics Looking for Jobs in Neuroscience and Optogenetics? Email your CV and interests to: viviana at stanford.edu vgradinaru at circuittx.com
Contact info: Viviana Gradinaru 1050 Arastradero CNC Center Stanford Univ. Palo Alto CA, 94304 Email: viviana at stanford.edu News articles featuring Optogenetics Tool Development and Applications to Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson. Click images below for details	Education Ph.D. Stanford University Neuroscience Bio-X SIGF in Human Health Fellow B.S. California Institute of Technology
	Research Research Interests Dr. Viviana Gradinaru studied Physics for two years at University of Bucharest, Romania, before transferring to Caltech, from where she graduated with honors with a bachelor degree in Biology. She then continued as a PhD student in the Neuroscience Program at Stanford. In the optogenetics lab of Prof. Karl Deisseroth Viviana worked on developing tools (i.e. Optogenetic Brain Stimulators) to control brain function and applying them to study psychiatric diseases. Dr. Gradinaru’s focus is on understanding the mammalian brain wiring and the mechanism behind deep brain stimulation in movement and mood disorders such as Parkinson’s and depression. She is also interested in entrepreneurship and translational bioengineering for better human health. Publications Find most recent here. Selected 1. Gradinaru V*, Zhang F*, Ramakrishnan C, Mattis J, Prakash R, Diester I., Goshen I., Thompson K.R., Deisseroth K. Molecular and Cellular Approaches for Diversifying and Extending Optogenetics. Cell. 2010 Apr 2;141(1):154-65. Epub 2010 Mar 18. Commentary by Susumu Tonegawa. F1000 must read. 2. Zhang F*, Gradinaru V*, Adamantidis AR*, Durand R, Airan RD, De Lecea L, Deisseroth K. Optogenetic interrogation of neural circuits: technology for probing deep mammalian brain structure. Nature Protocols. 2010, 5, 439-456. 3. Gradinaru V*, Mogri M*, Thompson KR, Henderson JM, Deisseroth K. Optical deconstruction of parkinsonian neural circuitry. Science. 2009 Apr 17;324(5925):354-9. Epub 2009 Mar 19. Science News Focus. F1000 medicine exceptional. 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. Teaching Viviana is an instructor for: Optogenetics Innovation Laboratory (OIL) Stanford University The Optogenetics Module of the Advanced Techniques in Molecular Neuroscience (ATMN) course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2008 - present) BIOE 291: Principles and Practice of Optogenetics for Optical Control of Biological Tissues, Karl Deisseroth, Fall 2009 Stanford