Session 3

Illuminating Hope: How optogenetics can provide breakthroughs in neuromodulation

Thursday, May 1st from 3:30p - 5:00p

Session Chair

Esther Krook-Magnuson, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

"Optogenetics in humans: Partial recovery of visual function in a blind patients"

Jose-Alain Sahel, MD

Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

"Theta phase-locked manipulations bidirectionally impact seizure susceptibility"

Zoe Christenson Wick, PhD

Instructor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

"Illuminating novel seizure nodes in the brain from mice to humans"

Quyn Anh Nguyen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University