Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Lisa Giocomo was a 2014 recipient of the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience for her project The Neural Substrates of Spatial Coding. Her project built on her previous discovery that HCN channel kinetics systemically tune scale grid representations to link single-cell biophysics to neural coding and behavior in a high-order cortical region. The project identified gradients in other channels, and mapped out how , when lost, HCN channels modify spatial representations across the navigation system. 

Dr. Giocomo is currently a Professor in the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Giocomo is also a member of Stanford Bio-X and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. Dr. Giocomo currently directs the Giocomo Lab, which integrates electrophysiology, behavior, imaging, gene manipulations, and computational modeling to study how single-cell biophysics and network dynamics interact to mediate spatial memory and navigation.   

Dr. Giocomo received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Boston University and her B.A. in Psychology from Baylor University.