Karl Deisseroth
Professor
Bioengineering
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
Deisseroth focuses on developing molecular and cellular tools to observe, perturb, and re-engineer brain circuits. His laboratory is based in the James H. Clark Center at Stanford and employs a range of techniques including neural stem cell and tissue engineering methods, electrophysiology, molecular biology, neural activity imaging, animal behavior, and computational neural network modeling. Also a clinician in the psychiatry department, Dr. Deisseroth employs novel electromagnetic brain stimulation techniques in human patients for therapeutic purposes.
Research Interest
Research in Dr. Deisseroth's laboratory focuses on developing optical, molecular and cellular tools to observe, perturb, and re-engineer brain circuits. His laboratory is based in the James H. Clark Center at Stanford and has developed optogenetic and tissue engineering methods, employing techniques spanning electrophysiology, molecular biology, optics, neural activity imaging, animal behavior, and computational neural network modeling. Also a physician in the psychiatry department, Professor Deisseroth employs novel electromagnetic brain stimulation techniques in human patients for therapeutic purposes.
Publications
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Tye KM, Mirzabekov JJ, Warden MR, Ferenczi EA, Tsai H,et al. (2013) Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behaviour. Nature 493: 537.
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Kim S, Adhikari A, Lee SY, Marshel JH, Kim CK, et al. (2013) Diverging neural pathways assemble a behavioural state from separable features in anxiety. Nature 496: 219-223
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Chung K, Wallace J, Kim S, Kalyanasundaram S, Andalman AS, et al. (2013) Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems. Nature 497: 332-337
