UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping
Center focuses on neural circuit studies and new viral-genetic technology development. The main aim of the Center is to advance the study of neural circuits to define mechanisms and pathways that underlie neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Understanding the brain’s neural circuitry is critical for successful translational progress in better treating these diseases.
One critical component of the Center is the creation of a viral production facility to disseminate to the worldwide neuroscience community new molecular tools developed by the Center investigators funded by BRAIN Initiative awards. This Center facility will support investigators using viral genetic tools, and serve the research community by custom-making genetically modified AAV, lentivirus, rabies and herpes viruses, etc. on a recharge basis.