Biafra Ahanonu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Anatomy
School of Medicine

Awards

Show all (9) Hide

• Hanna H. Gray Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2021
• Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience, Stanford University, 2019
• HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2015
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2012
• Wenderoth Scholarship, Phi Sigma Kappa, 2010
• Zeno Karl Schindler Grant, 2009
• Eugene & Margaret McDermott Scholarship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-2012
• Gates Millennium Scholarship, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008
• National Achievement Scholarship (Sponsor: Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold.), National Merit Scholarship Corporation, 2008

Education & Training

Show all (4) Hide

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Biology Stanford University 2019
• PhD Biology Stanford University 2018
• BS Biology & Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
• Postdoctoral Scholar Anatomy University of California, San Francisco

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
OptogeneticsParkinsonian DisordersHistone Deacetylase 1Virtual RealityCorpus StriatumWakefulnessLocomotionDyskinesiasAmygdalaNeuralgiaHyperalgesiaHypothalamus, PosteriorNeuronsOrientationMicroscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton

• Long-term optical imaging of the spinal cord in awake, behaving animals.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Ahanonu B, Crowther A, Kania A, Casillas MR, Basbaum A
• Fiber photometry in striatum reflects primarily nonsomatic changes in calcium.
  Nature neuroscience 2022 Legaria AA, Matikainen-Ankney BA, Yang B, Ahanonu B, Licholai JA, Parker JG, Kravitz AV
• Supramammillary regulation of locomotion and hippocampal activity.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2021 Farrell JS, Lovett-Barron M, Klein PM, Sparks FT, Gschwind T, Ortiz AL, Ahanonu B, Bradbury S, Terada S, Oijala M, Hwaun E, Dudok B, Szabo G, Schnitzer MJ, Deisseroth K, Losonczy A, Soltesz I
• Kilohertz two-photon brain imaging in awake mice.
  Nature methods 2019 Zhang T, Hernandez O, Chrapkiewicz R, Shai A, Wagner MJ, Zhang Y, Wu CH, Li JZ, Inoue M, Gong Y, Ahanonu B, Zeng H, Bito H, Schnitzer MJ
• Visually Guided Behavior and Optogenetically Induced Learning in Head-Fixed Flies Exploring a Virtual Landscape.
  Current biology : CB 2019 Haberkern H, Basnak MA, Ahanonu B, Schauder D, Cohen JD, Bolstad M, Bruns C, Jayaraman V

Show all (4 more) Hide

• An amygdalar neural ensemble that encodes the unpleasantness of pain.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Corder G, Ahanonu B, Grewe BF, Wang D, Schnitzer MJ, Scherrer G
• Diametric neural ensemble dynamics in parkinsonian and dyskinetic states.
  Nature 2018 Parker JG, Marshall JD, Ahanonu B, Wu YW, Kim TH, Grewe BF, Zhang Y, Li JZ, Ding JB, Ehlers MD, Schnitzer MJ
• Neuronal Representation of Social Information in the Medial Amygdala of Awake Behaving Mice.
  Cell 2017 Li Y, Mathis A, Grewe BF, Osterhout JA, Ahanonu B, Schnitzer MJ, Murthy VN, Dulac C
• SIRT1 collaborates with ATM and HDAC1 to maintain genomic stability in neurons.
  Nature neuroscience 2013 Dobbin MM, Madabhushi R, Pan L, Chen Y, Kim D, Gao J, Ahanonu B, Pao PC, Qiu Y, Zhao Y, Tsai LH