Alexandro Diaz Ramirez

Alexandro Diaz Ramirez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology within SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University's College of Medicine. His research focuses on decoding cellular-resolution neural circuits involved in decision-making, using larval zebrafish oculomotor circuits as a model system.

• Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
• Key Research Area: Integration of sensory signals and internal neural activity in decision-making
• Model Organism: Larval zebrafish

Ramirez's research combines cellular calcium imaging and electron microscopic reconstruction to analyze neural ramping patterns preceding saccades. His lab investigates how oculomotor circuits sustain decision-related activity and how this mechanism is conserved across species.

Key article themes include visuomotor behaviors, neural integrators, retinal development, and computational models of decision thresholds. His publications demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches spanning molecular genetics to systems neuroscience.

Current research directions involve mapping hindbrain circuit dynamics and studying how self-initiated decisions emerge from neural activity patterns.