“Neuromodulation and neurodegeneration: Insights from optogenetics.”

Dr. Viviana Gradinaru is Assistant Professor at the Califiornia Institute of Technology (Caltech). She discovered her passion for neuroscience at Caltech, her alma mater, where she was accepted as a transfer student from University of Physics, Romania, with a full scholarship. Dr. Gradinaru did her Ph.D. work with Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University and she played an instrumental role in the early development and applications of optogenetics, a research area concerned with the perturbation of neuronal activity via light-controlled ion channels and pumps.

Published on October 3, 2013 by Allen Institute for Brain Science