Home Department: Engineering Physics
Supported by: VPUE
Mentor: Karl Deisseroth, Professor of Bioengineering, Psychiatry, and of Behavioral Sciences
Isaac Kauvar, a senior in engineering physics from Denver, is fascinated by photons, neural systems, renewable energy conversion, and making things. As a member of the Deisseroth lab, he is using optogenetic neural control with simultaneous bulk calcium imaging in a freely moving rodent to probe how the brain processes information. In particular, he is investigating the role played by the cortical and dopaminergic modulatory systems in orchestrating goal-directed animal behavior.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 17, 2011:
Optogenetic Feedback Control of Genetically Targeted Populations of Neurons in a Freely Moving Mouse
Isaac Kauvar1, Logan Grosenick2, Kelly Zalocusky2, Karl Deisseroth3,4
[Departments of Engineering Physics1, Neuroscience2, Bioengineering3, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences4; Stanford University]
