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Sergiu P. Pasca - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Pasca's Lab Homepage
Dr. Sergiu Pasca's lab employs state-of-the-art stem cell biology, genome engineering, imaging and neuroscience approaches to identify the dynamical processes that go awry in neural cells derived from patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia, and what should be therapeutically targeted in these conditions.
Markus Covert - Associate Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Chemical and Systems Biology
Scientific Leadership Council Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Covert's Lab Webpage
Dr. Covert's lab's focus is on building computational models of complex biological processes, and using these models to guide an experimental program.
Karen Parker - Associate Professor (Research) of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Parker's Lab Homepage
The principal goal of Dr. Karen Parker's research is to better understand the biology of social functioning using an integrative, translational approach.
Josef Parvizi - Professor of Neurology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Laboratory of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience (LBCN) Homepage
Dr. Josef Parvizi's lab specializes in the study of human brain using a combination of intracranial electrocorticography (ECoG), electrical brain stimulation (EBS), and functional neuroimaging (fMRI) methods.
Lisa Giocomo - Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Scientific Leadership Council Member
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Dr. Giocomo's Lab Homepage
Dr. Lisa Giocomo's laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the organization of cortical circuits important for spatial navigation and memory.
Axel Brunger - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, of Photon Science, and (by courtesy) of Structural Biology
Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty
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Dr. Brunger's Lab Webpage
Dr. Axel Brunger's laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release, and how these mechanisms relate to physiological function.
Paul Bollyky - Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology & Immunology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Bollyky's Lab Homepage
Dr. Bollyky's lab studies how immune responses are regulated within injured and infected tissues.
Raag Airan - Assistant Professor of Radiology (Neuroimagining and Neurointervention) and (by courtesy) of Materials Science and Engineering
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Airan's Lab Homepage
Dr. Raag Airan's goal is to develop and clinically implement new technologies for high-precision and noninvasive intervention upon the nervous system.
Anthony Norcia - Professor (Research) of Psychology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Stanford Vision and Neuro-Development Lab
Dr. Anthony Norcia's research program centers around spatial vision and involves the use of behavioral, oculomotor, electrophysiological and functional MRI techniques in humans.
Daniel Palanker - Director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and Professor of Ophthalmology and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering
Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Palanker's Lab Homepage
The primary focus of Dr. Daniel Palanker's research is in interactions of electric field (including light) with biological cells and tissues.
William Newsome - Harman Family Provostial Professor, Vincent V. C. Woo Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and Professor of Neurobiology and (by courtesy) of Psychology
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Newsome's Lab Homepage
The long-term goal of Dr. Bill Newsome's research is to understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior.
Ellen Kuhl - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Cardiothoracic Surgery and of Bioengineering
Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Kuhl's Department Homepage
Dr. Kuhl's Lab Homepage
Dr. Ellen Kuhl's area of professional expertise is living matter physics, the creation of theoretical and computational models to predict the acute and chronic response of living structures to environmental changes during development and disease progression.
Ann Arvin - Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Arvin's laboratory investigates the molecular virology of VZV, focusing on the functional roles of particular viral gene products in pathogenesis and virus-cell interactions in differentiated human cells in SCID mouse models of VZV infection in vivo.
Kwabena Boahen - Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering
Clark Center Faculty, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Boahen's Lab Homepage
The Boahen lab is bridging the experiment–computation gap by building a computer that works like the brain, feeding back and contributing to a fundamental, biological understanding of how the brain works.
Russ Altman - Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine (General Medical Discipline), and (by courtesy) of Computer Science
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Altman's Lab Homepage
Dr. Altman's primary interests are in the application of computing technologies to basic molecular biological problems, now referred to as bioinformatics.
Carla Shatz - David Starr Jordan Director of Stanford Bio-X, Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
Executive Committee Member, Seed Grant Committee Member, Scientific Leadership Council Chair, Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Shatz's Lab Webpage
To discover cell and molecular underpinnings of circuit tuning, the Shatz lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity.
Jim Plummer - Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the School of Engineering, John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Professor (by courtesy) of Materials Science and Engineering
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Plummer's School of Engineering Webpage
Dr. Plummer studies both the physics which govern device operation in silicon integrated circuits and the technology used to fabricate these circuits.
Lloyd Minor - The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean of the School of Medicine and Professor of Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery) and (by courtesy) of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering
Executive Committee Member
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School of Medicine Profile of the Dean
Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner-ear disorders; he has published over 140 articles and chapters and founded a lab focused on vestibular research.
Stephen Quake - Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics, and (by courtesy) of Physics
Clark Center Faculty, Clark Center Working Group Member
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Dr. Quake's Lab Homepage
Dr. Quake’s interests lie at the nexus of physics, biology and biotechnology.
Judith Frydman - Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities & Sciences and Professor of Genetics
Clark Center Faculty, Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Frydman's Lab Homepage
The long term goal of the Frydman lab's research is to understand how proteins fold in living cells.

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