{"result":[{"lastName":"Dolmetsch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4040&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ricardo Dolmetsch","firstName":"Ricardo","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ricardo_Dolmetsch","researchInterest":"Our lab studies the underlying neurobiology of autism and other neuro-developmental disorders.  We are particularly interested in understanding how electrical activity and calcium signals control the development of the brain and how this is altered in children with autism spectrum disorders. We are also developing new tools to study and repair the developing brain."},{"lastName":"Crabtree","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4283&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gerald Crabtree","firstName":"Gerald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Gerald_Crabtree","researchInterest":"Chromatin regulation and its roles in human cancer and the development of the nervous system.  Engineering new methods for studying and controlling chromatin in living cells."},{"lastName":"Shatz","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8146&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carla Shatz","firstName":"Carla","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Carla_Shatz","researchInterest":"The goal of research in the Shatz Laboratory is to discover how brain circuits are tuned up by experience during critical periods of development both before and after birth by elucidating cellular and molecular mechanisms that transform early fetal and neonatal brain circuits into mature connections. To discover mechanistic underpinnings of circuit tuning, the lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity and studied their function for vision, learning and memory."},{"lastName":"Baccus","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6027&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen A. Baccus","firstName":"Stephen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Stephen_Baccus","researchInterest":"We study how the neural circuitry of the vertebrate retina encodes visual information and performs computations. To control and measure the retinal circuit, we present visual images while performing simultaneous two-photon imaging and multielectrode recording. We perturb the circuit as it operates using simultaneous intracellular current injection and multielectrode recording, and use the resulting large data sets to construct models of retinal computation."},{"lastName":"Barres","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4239&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ben Barres","firstName":"Ben","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ben_Barres","researchInterest":"Our lab is interested in the neuronal-glial interactions that underlie the development and function of the mammlian central nervous system."},{"lastName":"Kastner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17908&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Kastner","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/David_Kastner","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Weiler","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19763&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nicholas Weiler","firstName":"Nicholas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Nicholas_Weiler","researchInterest":"I am interested in the structure of neocortex and the relation of circuit structure to neural activity and circuit function. My work in the Smith lab focuses on the development of array tomography methods to characterize and quantify populations of cortical synapses based on the diverse proteomic \"fingerprints\" of molecules characteristically expressed by different synapse types. My primary goal is to quantify the distribution of distinct synapse classes within columns of barrel cortex"},{"lastName":"Bernstein","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Autism"},{"focus":"Developmental Disorders"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Genetics"},{"focus":"Craniofacial Abnormalities"},{"focus":"Craniosynostosis"},{"focus":"Cleft Lip"},{"focus":"Cleft Palate"},{"focus":"Clinical Genetics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Medical Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Medical Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8523&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jon Bernstein","firstName":"Jonathan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jonathan_Bernstein","researchInterest":"I am interested in the genetics of autism spectrum and other developmental disorders.   In collaboration with the laboratories of Dr. Ricardo Dolmetsch and Joachim Hallmayer I am working to develop induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) models of genetic disorders associated with autism and developmental disability."},{"lastName":"de Lecea","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7308&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Luis de Lecea","firstName":"Luis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Luis_de Lecea","researchInterest":"My lab uses molecular, optogenetic, anatomical and behavioral methods to identify and manipulate the neuronal circuits underlying brain arousal, with particular attention to sleep and wakefulness transitions. We are also interested in the changes that occur in neuronal circuits in conditions of hyperarousal such as stress and drug addiction."},{"lastName":"Marro","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=12353&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuele Marro","firstName":"Samuele","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Samuele_Marro","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Bonnavion","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11511&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patricia Bonnavion","firstName":"Patricia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Patricia_Bonnavion","researchInterest":"I earned my Ph.D. in physiology and physiopathology in 2008 at the University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris. My research interests were initially oriented on the brainstem neural circuits governing sleep/wake transitions with a particular focus on the serotonin (5-HT) signaling. As I joined Luis de Lecea's lab as a postdoc fellow, I pursued studying the dynamic of arousal systems across vigilance states and in response to environmental & behavioral challenges that threaten and disrupt ho"},{"lastName":"Marshel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34838&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Marshel","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/James_Marshel","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Amodei","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29493&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dario Amodei","firstName":"Dario","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Dario_Amodei","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Yang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18228&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nan Yang","firstName":"Nan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Nan_Yang","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Mera","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15617&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paola Mera","firstName":"Paola","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Paola_Mera","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Zhang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rui Zhang","firstName":"Rui","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Rui_Zhang","researchInterest":"My goal is to combine theoretical and experimental approaches to uncover the mystery of gene regulatory networks. My current research focuses on the fine-tuning function of RNA editing, a post-transcriptional-processing mechanism that contributes to the diversity of gene products."},{"lastName":"Deisseroth","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Psychiatry"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6080&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karl Deisseroth","firstName":"Karl","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Karl_Deisseroth","researchInterest":"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. 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The synapses are the structural connection between neurons that mediates the communication between neurons, which underlies our various cognitive function. My research program aims to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation."},{"lastName":"Li","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35683&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dong Li","firstName":"Dong","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Dong_Li","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hestrin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4343&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shaul Hestrin","firstName":"Shaul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Shaul_Hestrin","researchInterest":"The main interest of my lab is to understand how the properties of neocortical neurons and the circuits they form give rise to cortical activity and function. Our approach includes recordings from multiple cells, calcium imaging, two-photon imaging and viral-based optogenetic methods to activate  cortical neurons as well as cortical afferents."}]}