Bobbie Brown

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Robert W. Gereau, PhD

Undergraduate university: Washington University, 2017

Enrollment year: 2018

Research summary

Graduate publications
Wietek J, Nozownik A, Pulin M, Saraf-Sinik I, Matosevich N, Gowrishankar R, Gat A, Malan D, Brown BJ, Dine J, Imambocus BN, Levy R, Sauter K, Litvin A, Regev N, Subramaniam S, Abrera K, Summarli D, Goren EM, Mizrachi G, Bitton E, Benjamin A, Copits BA, Sasse P, Rost BR, Schmitz D, Bruchas MR, Soba P, Oren-Suissa M, Nir Y, Wiegert JS, Yizhar O. 2024 A bistable inhibitory optoGPCR for multiplexed optogenetic control of neural circuits. Nat Methods, 21(7):1275-87. PMCID: PMC11239505

Stuart T, Jeang WJ, Slivicki RA, Brown BJ, Burton A, Brings VE, Alarcón-Segovia LC, Agyare P, Ruiz S, Tyree A, Pruitt L, Madhvapathy S, Niemiec M, Zhuang J, Krishnan S, Copits BA, Rogers JA, Gereau RW 4th, Samineni VK, Bandodkar AJ, Gutruf P. 2023 Wireless, Battery-Free Implants for Electrochemical Catecholamine Sensing and Optogenetic Stimulation. ACS Nano, 17(1):561-74. PMCID:

Copits BA, Gowrishankar R, O’Neill PR, Li JN, Girven KS, Yoo JJ, Meshik X, Parker KE, Spangler SM, Elerding AJ, Brown BJ, Shirley SE, Ma KKL, Vasquez AM, Stander MC, Kalyanaraman V, Vogt SK, Samineni VK, Patriarchi T, Tian L, Gautam N, Sunahara RK, Gereau RW 4th, Bruchas MR. 2021 A photoswitchable GPCR-based opsin for presynaptic inhibition. Neuron, 109(11):S1791-1809.e11. PMCID: PMC8194251

Li P, Halabi CM, Stewart R, Butler A, Brown B, Xia X, Santi C, England S, Ferreira J, Mecham RP, Salkoff L. 2019 Sodium-activated potassium channels moderate excitability in vascular smooth muscle. J Physiol, 597(20):5093-108. PMCID: