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Chockalingam Ramanathan

PhD student

Chockalingam

Institute of Physiology I
University of Freiburg
Hermann-Herder-Str. 7
79104 Freiburg

Phone: +49 (0)761-203-67307


Research Topics

  • Inter-areal communication in the mouse visual system
  • Role of interneurons in feedforward and feedback signalling

Techniques

  • In vivo extracellular electrophysiology using Neuropixels probes and high dimensional data analysis
  • Optogenetics
  • Visually Guided Behavior tasks

Academic Background

  • 2020 - Present: PhD student - Emmy Noether Junior Research Group - Dr. Julia Veit
  • 2017 - 2019: MSc. Neuroscience - Joint Masters in Neuroscience - University of Strasbourg - University of Freiburg - University of Basel
  • 2012 - 2016: B.Tech Biotechnology - SRM University, Chennai, India

Publications

  1. Miguel Telega L, Ashouri Vajari D, Ramanathan C, Coenen VA, Döbrössy MD. 2025.
    Chronic in vivo sequelae of repetitive acute mfb-DBS on accumbal dopamine and midbrain neuronal activity. Journal of Neurochemistry. 169(1):e16223. 
  2. Sarrazin DH, Gardner W, Marchese C, Balzinger M, Ramanathan C, Schott M, Rozov S, Veleanu M, Vestring S, Normann C, Rantamäki T, Antoine B, Barrot M, Challet E, Bourgin P, Serchov T. 2024.
    Prefrontal cortex molecular clock modulates development of depression-like phenotype and rapid antidepressant response in mice.
    Nature Communications. 15(1):7257. 
  3. Döbrössy MD., Chockalingam, R., Ashouri D., Yixin T., Schlaepfer TE., Coenen VA. 2021.
    Neuromodulation in Psychiatric disorders: Experimental and Clinical evidence for reward and motivation network Deep Brain Stimulation: Focus on the medial forebrain bundle.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, 53(1):89-113.
  4. Ashouri D., Chockalingam, R., Yixin T., Stieglitz T., Coenen VA., Döbrössy MD. 2020.
    Medial forebrain bundle DBS differentially modulates dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens in a rodent model of depression.
    Experimental Neurology, 327:113224.
  5. Pratap, UP., Patil, A., Sharma, HR., Hima, L., Chockalingam, R., Hariharan, MM., Shitoot, S., Priyanka, HP., ThyagaRaja 2016.
    Estrogen-induced neuroprotective and antiinflammatory effects are dependent on the brain areas of middle-aged female rats.
    Brain Research Bulletin; 124:238-253.