Dr. Tess Oram is a patent agent in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations practice.

Prior to joining the firm, Tess was a postdoctoral associate at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus. Her work focused on the elucidation of neural mechanisms by which sensorimotor contingencies generate complex behaviors. Tess’s work combined quantitative behavioral analysis with genetic and intracellular electrophysiological techniques. During her doctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tess investigated the neural processing of tactile and proprioceptive information from the whisking system of freely-moving mice by exploiting advancements in the quantification of behavior, extracellular electrophysiology, and optogenetic and chemogenetic methods.