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Viviana Gradinaru
Ph.D. Neuroscience
Stanford
University
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Contact info:News
articles featuring
Optogenetics
work on Parkinson ’s Disease
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Education Ph.D. 2010
(expected) Stanford University
2005 – 2008 SGF Fellow
2008 – 2010 Bio-X SIGF in
Human Health Fellow
B.S. 2003 – 2005 California Institute of Technology
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Research Research
Interests Viviana Gradinaru is currently in the optogenetics
lab of Prof. Karl Deisseroth. Viviana studied Physics for two years at
University of Bucharest, Romania, before transferring to Caltech, from where
she graduated with honors in 2005 with a bachelor degree in Biology. She is
in the Neuroscience PhD Program at Stanford working on developing tools (i.e.
Optogenetic Brain Stimulators) to control brain function and applying them to
study 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. 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 structures, Nature Protocols, in press, 2009. 2.
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. 3. Gradinaru V, Thompson KR, Deisseroth K. eNpHR: a Natronomonas halorhodopsin enhanced for optogenetic applications. Brain Cell Biol. 2008 Aug;36(1-4):129-39. 4. Schneider MB, Gradinaru V, Zhang F,
Deisseroth K. Controlling neuronal activity. Am J Psychiatry. 2008 May;165(5):562.
5. 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. 6.
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
Bio-X 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
(2008 - present)
BIOE
291: Principles and Practice of Optogenetics for Optical Control of
Biological Tissues, Karl Deisseroth, Fall 2009 Stanford
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