Alexandra Nelson

Alexandra is a Professor in the UC San Francisco Department of Neurology, where she runs a systems neuroscience lab studying the circuit mechanisms underlying movement disorders in mouse models, and also sees movement disorders patients. As a graduate student she learned patch-clamp electrophysiology under the mentorship of Sascha du Lac at the Salk Institute. As a postdoctoral fellow, she learned in vivo electrophysiology and optogenetics in the lab of Anatol Kreitzer at the Gladstone Institute. One of her proudest achievements was winning the NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship.