NeuroPlant Team

NeuroPlant engages researchers from three Stanford schools (Medicine; Engineering; Humanities and Sciences) and the Carnegie Institution for Science and affiliates of both the Stanford Neuroscience and ChEM-H Institutes. Our interdisciplinary research team features experts in neurophysiology, molecular biophysics, plant genomics, theoretical neuroscience, and medicinal chemistry. 

Lead Researchers

Thomas R. Clandinin
Professor and Chair of Neurobiology, Stanford University

With his extensive experience using genetic and molecular genetic approaches in C. elegans, Dr. Clandinin leads the calcium imaging and combinatorial genome sequencing aspects of this project.

Miriam B Goodman
Professor and Chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University

​As an expert in the sensory physiology of nematodes, Dr. Goodman leads the nematode behavioral and neural signaling assays for this project.

Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee
Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science; Associate Professor of Biology (by courtesy), Stanford University

Dr. Rhee enhances this effort with computational genetics knowledge from creating the first plant genome-wide cofunction network that identifies the functions of novel genes. 

Team Members

Michael Bassik
​Assistant Professor of Genetics, Stanford University

Shaul Druckmann
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology; Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Elizabeth Sattely
​Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, HHMI Investigator,  Stanford University

Mark Smith
Director, Medicinal  Chemistry Knowledge Center, Stanford University

Alice Ting
Professor of Genetics,  Biology, and Chemistry (by courtesy), Stanford University

Sujay Guha
​Post-Doc, Goodman Lab,
​Stanford University

Emily Fryer
Research Assistant, Rhee Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology.