Background pattern of a brain with neural connections
Vijay Namboodiri

Vijay Namboodiri

Co-PI (Core Leadership)

University of California, San Francisco

Vijay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco and holds the Scott Alan Myers Endowed Professorship. He studied timing behaviors and encoding as a graduate student with Marshall Shuler in Johns Hopkins University, and neural circuits of learning and motivated behavior with Garret Stuber at University of Washington. He is a Pew Biomedical Scholar, Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience, Alfred P Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience, and an Associate Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

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Glutamate signaling Optogenetics Viral vectors Cognitive decline Neurotransmitters Synaptic transmission PD heterogeneity: circuit biology

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