Lisa Giocomo
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
NEUROBIOLOGY
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
She is an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology. She is a Member of Bio-X and Stanford Neurosciences Institute. She is a Robertson Neuroscience Investigator – New York Stem Cell Foundation, New York Stem Cell Foundation (2015-2019).She got Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences. She is a Sloan Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2013-2015).She got Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award from The Gruber Foundation (2012).She has done BA from Baylor University in Psychology (2002)and PhD from Boston University in Neuroscience (2008)
Research Interest
medial entorhinal cortex, where many neurons fire in spatially specific patterns and thus offer a measurable output for molecular manipulations.
Publications
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Eggink H, Mertens P, Storm E, Giocomo LM. Hyperpolarizationâ€activated cyclic nucleotideâ€gated 1 independent grid cellâ€phase precession in mice. Hippocampus. 2014 Mar 1;24(3):249-56.
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Hardcastle K, Ganguli S, Giocomo LM. Environmental boundaries as an error correction mechanism for grid cells. Neuron. 2015 May 6;86(3):827-39.
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Hardcastle K, Maheswaranathan N, Ganguli S, Giocomo LM. A Multiplexed, Heterogeneous, and Adaptive Code for Navigation in Medial Entorhinal Cortex. Neuron. 2017 Apr 19;94(2):375-87.
