Dr. Vasan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and a member of the Medical Discovery Team on Optical Imaging and Brain Science at the University of Minnesota.

Following his undergraduate studies in Electronic Sciences at the University of Madras, India, Ganesh went on to do a master’s in Nanoscience at the University of Loughborough, UK. He later obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Max Planck Institute of Iron Research, in Germany. For his postdoctoral work, Ganesh joined the lab of Dr. Vincent Pieribone at The John B. Pierce Laboratory and Yale School of Medicine, CT, where he designed and built a high-throughput, semi-automated platform to engineer fluorescent indicators for cortical and subcortical voltage imaging, a dual-microscope system to simultaneously image odorant responses in the dorsal and lateral olfactory bulbs, and established the optical technology for some of the first simultaneous multi-population voltage recordings in awake animals.

Research in the Vasan lab is focused on engineering next-generation neural activity indicators for live animal experiments. Dr. Vasan’s interests also include the development of novel multi-population and multi-areal recording approaches to study the interplay between local and global neural circuit dynamics in stimulus-guided behavior, such as odor navigation.