Krishnan Padmanabhan, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Neuroscience (SMD)
Assistant Professor - Center for Visual Science A&S (RC) - Joint

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

6/2017
Marchetto MC, Belinson H, Tian Y, Freitas BC, Fu C, Vadodaria K, Beltrao-Braga P, Trujillo CA, Mendes APD, Padmanabhan K, Nunez Y, Ou J, Ghosh H, Wright R, Brennand K, Pierce K, Eichenfield L, Pramparo T, Eyler L, Barnes CC, Courchesne E, Geschwind DH, Gage FH, Wynshaw-Boris A, Muotri AR. "Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals." Molecular psychiatry.. 2017 Jun 0; 22(6):820-835. Epub 2016 Jul 05.

7/13/2016
Padmanabhan K, Osakada F, Tarabrina A, Kizer E, Callaway EM, Gage FH, Sejnowski TJ. "Diverse Representations of Olfactory Information in Centrifugal Feedback Projections." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2016 Jul 13; 36(28):7535-45.

8/2015
Wang W, Tripathy SJ, Padmanabhan K, Urban NN, Kass RE. "An Empirical Model for Reliable Spiking Activity." Neural computation.. 2015 Aug 0; 27(8):1609-23. Epub 2015 Jun 16.

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