Amurta Nath
Staff Scientist at The National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAmurta Nath is a Staff Scientist at the National Institutes of Health with 11 years of experience probing retinal circuits and synaptic mechanisms underlying visual processing. She combines rigorous electrophysiology, calcium imaging, fluorescent neurotransmitter sensors, and behavioral assays to dissect how luminance and neuromodulators like dopamine shape retinal function. Her work spans deep mechanistic studies—from receptive field architecture of abundant retinal interneurons to nitric oxide signaling—and has produced Neuron-caliber discoveries. Amurta mentors graduate students and designs multimodal experiments that bridge cellular physiology and systems-level vision. Trained at Northwestern (PhD) and IIT Kanpur (BTech), she brings a quantitative bioengineering foundation to complex neuroscience questions. Notably, she leverages both optical sensors and classical circuit dissection to connect synaptic dynamics to perceptual-relevant retinal computations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, 32.7/36, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, 32.7/36 at Northwestern University
Afrikaans
Github Skills (2)
symphony4
code-analysis2
Github contributions (2)
SchwartzNU/PreferenceFiles
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:30 pushes in 2 years 1 month
SchwartzNU/SymphonyAnalysis
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 29 pushes in 7 months
northwesternnorthwestern-universitysymphonycode-analysis
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