Faculty Appointments
Biography
Professional Background
Dr. Padmanabhan received his BS in Biology and History and his MS in Physiological Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University and was the Francis Crick-Irwin Jacobs Junior Fellow at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies before arriving at the University of Rochester.
Research
Dr. Padmanabhan's research aims to understand principles of neuronal function in the mammalian brain using experimental and computational methods with a focus on uncovering the biological bases of psychiatric disorders. Work in the Padmanabhan lab uses multi-electrode electrophysiology, induced-Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) technology, imaging, and theoretical models to address three outstanding questions in neuroscience.
1) How does the brain represents features of the world via patterns of neuronal activity?
2) How does memory and experience shape the process of sensory perception?
3) How are these functions disrupted in neurological and psychiatric disorders?
Publications
Journal Articles
3/3/2021
Chockanathan U, Crosier EJW, Waddle S, Lyman E, Gerkin RC, Padmanabhan K. "Changes in pair-wise correlations during running reshapes global network state in the main olfactory bulb." Journal of neurophysiology.. 2021 Mar 3; Epub 2021 Mar 03.
2/2020
Warner EJ, Padmanabhan K. "Sex differences in head-fixed voluntary running behavior in C57BL/6J mice." The European journal of neuroscience.. 2020 Feb 0; 51(3):721-730. Epub 2019 Dec 30.
1/23/2020
Chockanathan U, Warner EJ, Turpin L, O'Banion MK, Padmanabhan K. "Altered dorsal CA1 neuronal population coding in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease." Scientific reports.. 2020 Jan 23; 10(1):1077. Epub 2020 Jan 23.
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