
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Department | FAS Center for Systems Biology |
| Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Address | 52 Oxford Street |
| Northwest Laboratories NW 365.20 | |
| City, State, Zip | Cambridge, MA 02138-1903 |
| Phone | (617) 384-7852 |
| mcb.harvard.edu | |
| Website | www.lsdiv.harvard.edu/csb/ramanathan/ |
| Research Field | Systems Neuroscience, Systems Biology |
| Award Year | 2011 |
Research
My lab is focused on understanding how cells and organisms make decisions. In particular we want to uncover how the dynamics of the underlying molecular and neural circuits lead to signal integration and decision-making.
Our work focuses studying the dynamics of neural circuits in the nematode C. elegans to understand how these animals make behavioral choices, and on the dynamics of molecular circuits in stem cells that lead to specific fate choices during development. In either case, we strive to understand the system well enough to be able to enforce specific decisions by directly manipulating the relevant dynamics. In the process, we develop and build novel optical, microscopy, image processing and statistical tools.
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2011 Scholars
- Dunham, Christine M.
- Fazzio, Thomas G.
- Fletcher, Max L.
- Fraser, Hunter B.
- Gardner, Melissa K.
- Gehring, Mary
- Gore, Jeff
- Komiyama, Takaki
- Kong, Mei
- Kuhns, Michael S.
- Larschan, Erica
- Lazzerini Denchi, Eros
- Morris, Ann C.
- Moseley, James B.
- Noble, Suzanne M.
- Nolen, Brad J.
- Pearson, Chad G.
- Ramanathan, Sharad
- Richardson, Anthony R.
- Ringstad, Niels
- Skiniotis, Georgios
- Zhou, Liang
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