Carla Shatz
Professor
Neurobiology
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Shatz is a Provostial Professor in Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University, USA.Her research aims to understand how early developing brain circuits are transformed into adult connections during critical periods of development. Her work, which focuses on the development of the mammalian visual system, has relevance not only for treating disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, but also for understanding how the nervous and immune systems interact.
Research Interest
Biology, Neurobiology
Publications
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Adelson JD, Sapp RW, Brott BK, Lee H, Miyamichi K (2016) Developmental Sculpting of Intracortical Circuits by MHC Class I H2-Db and H2-Kb. Cereb Cortex 26: 1453–1463.
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Vidal GS, Djurisic M, Brown K, Sapp RW, Shatz CJ (2016) Cell-Autonomous Regulation of Dendritic Spine Density by PirB. eNeuro 3: ENEURO.0089-16.
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Nguyen-Vu TB, Zhao GQ, Lahiri S, Kimpo RR, Lee H et al (2017) A saturation hypothesis to explain both enhanced and impaired learning with enhanced plasticity. Elife 6: e20147.
