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We are also interested in the changes that occur in neuronal circuits in conditions of hyperarousal such as stress and drug addiction."},{"lastName":"Cheng","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8752&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michelle Cheng","firstName":"Michelle","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michelle_Cheng","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Heller","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6225&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"H Craig Heller","firstName":"H Craig","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/H Craig_Heller","researchInterest":"Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, regulation of body temperature, mammalian hibernation, and human exercise physiology.  Currently applying background in sleep and circadian neurobiology the understanding and correcting the learning disability of Down Syndrome."},{"lastName":"De la Herran Arita","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34617&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alberto De la Herrán Arita","firstName":"Alberto","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alberto_De la Herran Arita","researchInterest":"Narcolepsy- hypocretin deficiency is a common sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal sleep-wake patterns. These patients also suffer from cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle tone triggered by strong emotions such as laughter. The disorder is caused by the specific loss of hypothalamic neurons producing two hypocretin peptides with high homology with each other, namely hcrt1 and hcrt2.  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We are pursuing this with several projects: 1) developing screening strategies using a novel colony-forming antibody live cell microarray, and 2) a novel micro-immunopanning device, 3) phage display to identify tumor specific markers and screen for cancer stem cells using assays in #1 and #2, and 4) examining EGFRvIII as a possible cancer stem cell marker"},{"lastName":"Giocomo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35065&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lisa Giocomo","firstName":"Lisa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lisa_Giocomo","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the organization of cortical circuits important for spatial navigation and memory. We are particularly focused on medial entorhinal cortex, where many neurons fire in spatially specific patterns and thus offer a measurable output for molecular manipulations. We combine electrophysiology, genetic approaches and behavioral paradigms to unravel the mechanisms and behavioral relevance of non-sensory cortical organization. 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Our current focus is to determine how we recover from infections."},{"lastName":"Grone","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18383&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Brian Grone","firstName":"Brian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brian_Grone","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Mignot","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Narcolepsy Cataplexy Syndrome"},{"focus":"Kleine-Levin Syndrome"},{"focus":"Sleep Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4317&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Emmanuel Mignot","firstName":"Emmanuel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Emmanuel_Mignot","researchInterest":"The research focus of the laboratory is the study of sleep and sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and Kleine Levin syndrome.  We also study the neurobiological and genetic basis of the EEG and develop new tools to study sleep using nocturnal polysomnography.  Approaches mostly involve human genetic studies (GWAS, sequencing), EEG signal analysis, and immunology (as narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease of the brain)."},{"lastName":"Ruoff","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Sleep Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Sleep Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23894&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chad Ruoff","firstName":"Chad","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Chad_Ruoff","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Warden","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8853&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Melissa Warden","firstName":"Melissa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Melissa_Warden","researchInterest":"I am a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. 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