Tamara K Berdyyeva is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neuroscience Department at Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson. Tamara holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics and Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences (Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA). At Carnegie Mellon, she implemented a novel technique of simultaneous recording of activity of multiple neurons in several areas of brain in non-human primates. During her postdoctoral appointment at Salk Institute, she worked with interdisciplinary team to develop an optogenetic approach to control genetically modified interneurons in primate brain. Currently, she is pioneering the use of large scale in-vivo brain calcium imaging in drug discovery (Janssen). ^[1]

1. https://be.ucsd.edu/all_seminars/2014