Viviana Gradinaru Ph.D. Neuroscience Stanford University
Contact info: Viviana Gradinaru Clark Center, W080 318 Campus Drive Stanford, CA 94305-5435 Email: viviana at stanford.edu News articles featuring Optogenetics work on Parkinson ’s Disease	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 C.V.
Click images below for details	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