Vishnu Shandilya, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
About
Vossel Lab
Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Research and Care at UCLA
Vossel Lab
710 Westwood Plaza, Room 3-243
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769
Email: vshandilya@mednet.ucla.edu
Biography
Dr. Vishnu Shandilya is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. Keith Vossel's lab. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Hyderabad, where his behavioral and molecular neuroscience work was on the synaptic plasticity gene Arc and memory. He is excited to contribute to Alzheimer’s disease research in the Vossel lab and UCLA Easton Center.
Affiliations
Education and Degrees
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India
Doctor of Philosophy, Cognitive Sciences (Neuroscience specialization), University of Hyderabad, India
Publications
Shandilya MCV, Addo-Osafo K, Ranasinghe KG, et al. High-frequency oscillations in epileptic and non-epileptic Alzheimer's disease patients and the differential effect of levetiracetam on the oscillations. Brain Commun. 2025;7(1):fcaf041. Published 2025 Feb 13. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcaf041
Shandilya MCV, Gautam A. The temporal effect of hippocampal Arc in the working memory paradigm during novelty exploration. Brain Res Bull. 2020 May; 158:51-58. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036192301931024X
Shandilya MCV, Gautam A. Hippocampal Arc Induces Decay of Object Recognition Memory in Male Mice. Neuroscience. 2020 Apr 1; 431:193-204. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.02.012
Conferences
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Virtual, November 2025
Poster: Effects of mutations in tau’s 6th proline rich region on sleep and neural activity
Alzheimer's Association International Conference
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, USA, July 2024
Poster 1: High Frequency Oscillations in Epileptic and Non-Epileptic Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and the Effect of Levetiracetam on the Oscillations
Poster 2: Effect of Music Stimulation on Network Activity of Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Third International Workshop on High Frequency Oscillations in Epilepsy
New York University Langone Health, New York, USA, May 2024
Poster: High Frequency Oscillations in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients: A Study of Epileptic and Non-Epileptic Cases and the Influence of Levetiracetam
5th meeting of Annual Conference of Cognitive Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, October 2018
Talk: The temporal effect on working memory performance in wild and scopolamine administered mice after the novel experience in Y Maze
International Conference on Neuroscience and 36th Annual meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, October 2018
Poster: The temporal effect on the working memory performance and Arc mRNA expression after the novel experience in amnesic mouse model