Home Department: Bioengineering
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Liqun Luo, Biology

Nicole’s project will use synthetic biology to develop new genetic methods for accessing and manipulating neurons. These efforts will help us gain insights into how populations of neurons process information and drive behavior.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 24, 2017:

Genetic and Functional Dissection of Neural Circuits: Decoding Behavioural Control

Nicole S. Ticea^1,2, Ethan B. Richman³, Karl Deisseroth^2,4,5*, Liqun Luo⁶*
[(*these authors jointly supervised this work) Departments of Physics¹, Bioengineering⁴, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences⁵, and Biology⁶, Stanford School of Engineering², and Stanford Neurosciences Institute³, Stanford University]