Post Docs

Vishnu Priya Sampath

vishnu.sampath@mail.huji.ac.il

Individuals diagnosed with autism often face social challenges and other unique difficulties related to their condition. Despite ongoing research, the neurological basis of these difficulties is not yet fully understood. Currently, as part of my ELSC fellowship, I am researching the behavioral changes observed in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by recording their brain activity through EEG. Prior to this, I worked on the hypothesis of the involvement of metals that inhibit the Na+, K+-ATPase in the etiology of psychiatric disease (Bipolar disorder) and Endogenous cardiac steroids involvement in BD, and cardiac failure during my second post-doctoral training at the Department of Medical Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel under the supervision of Prof. David Lichtstein from 2020-2022. Before joining the Hebrew University, I was a postdoctoral researcher working with Biomaterial Sciences at the National State-Key Laboratory of Surface Engineering, School of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China (2018-2020). I received my Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Mysore, India. My thesis work aimed to explore the silkworm genome of Bombyx mori, using bio-molecular tools to identify the immunocompetence and the genetic hardiness of Bombyx mori. I started my research career as a Junior research fellow in 2010 at the Central Sericultural Germplasm Resource Centre, Central Silk Board, Hosur.

ELSC-Faculty-Merav Ahissar
Merav Ahissar
Professor

ELSC-Faculty-Merav Ahissar
Merav Ahissar
Professor

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