ESP Biography



DANIEL CARDOZO PINTO, PhD student in Neuroscience




Major: Neuroscience

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: 2023

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hi all! I'm Danny.

I was born in Bogota, Colombia and moved to the US when I was five years old. Growing up in Fremont, California I became fascinated with the natural world during visits to local libraries, museums, and zoos. When I was a college student at UC Berkeley, I focused on studying the brain as a way to understand how we perceive and engage with the world around us. Double-majoring in psychology and neurobiology, I worked in a lab that studies how the chemical dopamine signals to the brain when an experience feels good, and how this process goes wrong in diseases like depression. As a grad student at Stanford, I now use lasers to turn specific groups of neurons in mice on or off in order to understand how cells that make dopamine work together with cells that make serotonin during different animal behaviors.

I had to discover how to become a scientist on my own, and I became a Splash teacher so that you won't have to! I teach a class about what science is, where and how science happens, and how to begin pursuing a science career. See you there!



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