Ilker Ozden - Mizzou Engineering

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Ilker Ozden

Assistant Professor, Biological and Biomedical Engineering

240 Agriculture Engineering Building, 1406 Rollins Street

Phone: 573-884-3686

Email: ozdeni@missouri.edu

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Biography

Ilker Ozden is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on understanding the neurophysiological basis of movement disorders and reward-based learning using rodents as the animal model. His laboratory uses functional calcium imaging, multichannel electrophysiology, optogenetics and computational modeling to characterize normal and diseased brain activity and identify neural targets for neuromodulation-based therapies for nervous system deficits.

Education

PhD in physics from Brown University
BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey
BS in Physics from Bogazici University, Turkey

Technical Focus

Neuroengineering

Neuroscience

Website

Ozden Lab