Indira Monica Raman
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| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison Cornell University |
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Indira Monica Raman is an Indian-American neuroscientist who is the Bill and Gayle Cook Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University. Her research considers systems neuroscience and ion channel biophysics.
Early life and education[edit]
Raman was encouraged to study science by her father, Varadaraja V. Raman, who spoke fifteen languages.[1] She decided to study neurobiology, and joined the undergraduate program at Cornell University.[1][2] She completed her doctoral research at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied glutamate receptors in the nucleus magnocellularis.[3] During her graduate research, she became interested in electrophysiology.[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.[4] As a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University she identified a new type of sodium current that flows through channels that reopen when the membrane is polarized.[5]
Research and career[edit]
In 1999, Raman moved to Northwestern University, where she established her own research group.[5] She is interested in neurons in the cerebellum.[6] The cerebellum acts to error-correct and regulate complex movement.[7] Her research considers the ionic mechanisms of neuronal excitability.[6] Building on the work of her PhD, she has expanded understanding of the resurgent sodium current in rapidly firing Purkinje cells.[5]
Raman has written and spoken about science, scientific research, and research culture.[8][9][10][11] She has described science as "a life-permeating philosophy that buoys me up both inside and outside the laboratory".[12]
At the 24th Chicago Humanities Festival in 2013, Raman and literature professor Susie Phillips presented a discussion titled "A Neuroscientist and a Humanist Walk Into a Bar", in which they imagine "what would happen if William Shakespeare tried to apply for a National Institutes of Health grant to write the infamously psychotic character Hamlet".[13]
She chaired an academic task force set up to propose reforms to improve student mental health at Northwestern.[14] The task force proposed changes to the school calendar, beginning the school year earlier and offering courses split across the winter break.[15]
Awards and honors[edit]
- 2000 Searle Scholars Program awardee
- 2013 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award[7]
- 2015 Curriculum Innovation Award[16]
- 2020 Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[17]
Selected publications[edit]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Indira Raman's long, winding road to the cerebellum | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre". www.sainsburywellcome.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ "Indira Raman – CSHL WiSE". Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ "Characterization of the glutamate receptors in the nucleus magno cellularis | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ "Raman, Indira M. | Learning For Life". www.nulearningforlife.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Quattrocolo, Giulia; Dunville, Keagan; Nigro, Maximiliano José (2021-10-01). "Resurgent Sodium Current in Neurons of the Cerebral Cortex". Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 15: 760610. doi:10.3389/fncel.2021.760610. ISSN 1662-5102. PMC 8517112 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 34658797 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Indira M. Raman: Department of Neurobiology – Northwestern University". neurobiology.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Indira Raman Granted NINDS Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award: Department of Neurobiology – Northwestern University". neurobiology.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ Raman, Indira M (2015). "Teaching for the future". eLife. 4: e05846. doi:10.7554/eLife.05846. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 4291744. PMID 25584462.
- ↑ Raman, Indira M (2016). "The truth is in the distribution". eLife. 5: e21723. doi:10.7554/eLife.21723. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5070947. PMID 27760003.
- ↑ Raman, Indira M (2017). "The humanity of science". eLife. 6: e27982. doi:10.7554/eLife.27982. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5417849. PMID 28468723.
- ↑ https://en-gb.facebook.com/thenakedscientists (2016-11-14). "A woman in science: Indira Raman". www.thenakedscientists.com. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ "Indira M. Raman". Neuron. 109 (19): 3015–3017. 2021-10-06. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.09.013. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 34619080 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Sophia Lee, "The animal in humanity at Chicago Humanities Fest", Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, 15 August 2013, Section 4, p. 2
- ↑ Chin, Emily; McKeon, Shane (October 9, 2015). "Students critique mental health resources at academic task force forum".
- ↑ Pillote, Robert; Yin, Alice (January 12, 2016). "Task force recommends Northwestern begin academic year in August, still maintain quarter system".
- ↑ "Indira Raman (left), Curriculum Innovation Award Recipient | The Alumnae of Northwestern University". www.nualumnae.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
- ↑ "Indira M. Raman". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-07-05. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
External links[edit]
- Indira M Raman at Northwestern University
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