Neuroscience Faculty
Addy, Nii
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neurobiology of addiction; In vivo electrochemistry; Behavioral pharmacology; Systems neuroscience; Neurotransmission; Signal transduction
Alreja, Meenakshi
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology
Director, Minority Recruitment, Psychiatry Department
Director, Postdoctoral Affairs, Psychiatry Department
Research Interests:Prefrontal cortex; Interneurons; Nicotine; Acetylcholine; Electrophysiology; GABA; glutamate; Hypocretin; MCH, Learning and Memory; Neurotransmitters; Signal Transduction; GnRH; Puberty; Fertility; HPG axis; Kisspeptin
Arnsten, Amy
Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Member, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience at Yale University
Research Interests:Molecular influences on higher cognitive function
Biederer, Thomas
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:Biochemistry of membrane proteins; molecular and cellular neuroscience; synapse formation
Blumberg, Hilary
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Diagnostic Radiology
Director, Mood Disorders Research Program
Research Interests:Adolescence; Bipolar Disorder; Brain; Depression; Development; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Emotion; Endophenotype; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mania; Manic Depressive Disorder; Neuropsychiatry; Neuroscience; Women
Blumenfeld, Hal
Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology and of Neurosurgery
Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)
Research Interests:Impaired consciousness in epilepsy; Epilepsy neuroimaging and electrophysiology
Bordey, Angelique
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neurogenesis; stem cells; neurotransmitters; growth factor signaling; astrocytes; tuberous sclerosis complex; epilepsy; glioma
Cafferty, William
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Cardin, Jessica
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Cortex; Inhibitory interneuron; Oscillation; Electrophysiology; Vision; Schizophrenia; Epilepsy; Intracellular; Network
Carlson, John
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:Drosophila, olfaction, taste, Anopheles, mosquito
Chandra, Sreeganga
Assistant Professor of Neurology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:Presynaptic Biology; Synapse Maintenance; Parkinson's Disease; Neurodegeneration
Chun, Marvin
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); attention; memory; decision making; executive control; perception
Cohen, Lawrence
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Brain; Central Nervous System; Neurons; Vertebrate Physiology; Olfaction; Olfactory Bulb; Protein Sensors of Voltage and Calcium
Colon-Ramos, Daniel
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
Yale Program in Cellular Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration and Repair
Research Interests:neural connectivity; brain; nematode C. elegans
Constable, R. Todd
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Neurosurgery
Research Interests:Development of MRI techniques to provide functional information; Quantitative information and high quality pictures of anatomy; Application of new methods to answer fundamental questions in basic science and medicine
Crair, Michael
William Ziegler III Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Director, Graduate Studies
Research Interests:Neural circuit development; synapse formation; visual system development; cortex development
De Camilli, Pietro
Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Yale Program in Cellular Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration and Repair
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research Interests:Synapses; exocytosis; endocytosis; membranes; clathrin; dynamin; phosphoinositides; Lowe syndrome; BAR proteins; neurodegeneration
deLanerolle, Nihal
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Molecular and cellular neuropathology of human seizure foci; development of animal models of human temporal lobe epilepsy; neuropathology of Traumatic brain injury
Diano, Sabrina
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, of Neurobiology and of Comparative Medicine
Director, Reproductive Neurosciences Group
Research Interests:Metabolism Regulation
DiLeone, Ralph
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Addictions; Animal Behavior Or Ethology; Animal Nutrition; Diseases and Disorders; Drugs Or Drug Abuse; Eating Disorders; Etiology; Evolution; Genetic Manipulation; Natural History; Obesity; Psychiatry
Duman, Ronald
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Director, Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities
Research Interests:Depression; Antidepressants; Stress; Molecular biology; Neuropharmacology Signal transduction pathways; Gene expression; Identifying the molecular and cellular adaptations that underlie the actions of psychotropic drugs and stress
Ehrlich, Barbara
Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Intracellular calcium regulation
Forscher, Paul
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:cytoskeleton; actin filament; microtubule; protein dynamics; axon growth; axon guidance; axon regeneration; mechanotransduction; calcium; Rho GTPase
Garcia-Castro, Martin
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Gray, Jeremy
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Interests:individual differences; self-control; brain function; brain structure; meditation
Greer, Charles
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology
Vice Chair of Research, Neurosurgery
Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program
Research Interests:Development; specificity of synaptic circuits; aging; cellular and molecular biology of the nervous system
Grutzendler, Jaime
Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:two-photon microscopy, neurodegeneration,Alzheimer's, blood-brain barrier, microvasculature, synapses, neuroinflammation, microglia, astrocyte, endothelium
Gunel, Murat
Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Genetics and of Neurobiology
Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics
Director, Neurovascular Surgery
Research Interests:Molecular genetics and biology of brain aneurysms and cavernous malformations; molecular genetics of brain development
Hafler, David
Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology
Chair, Department of Neurology
Research Interests:neuroimmunology; multiple sclerosis; autoimmunity; genetics; immunobiology
Hammarlund, Marc
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Primary Faculty, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair
Research Interests:Axon regeneration and degeneration; Neuronal plasticity; Femtosecond laser surgery; C. elegans neurobiology
Higley, Michael
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:neural circuits; synaptic integration; neuromodulation
Horvath, Tamas
Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Comparative Medicine and Professor of Neurobiology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Chair, Section of Comparative Medicine
Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Research, Director, Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism
Research Interests:Neurobiology of obesity; Neuroendocrine physiology
Hyder, D. S. Fahmeed
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Technical Director, Magnetic Resonance Research Center (mrrc.yale.edu)
Program Director, Core Center for Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (qnmr.yale.edu)
Johnson, Marcia
Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology
Department Chair, Psychology
Research Interests:Cognition and cognitive neuroscience. Component processes of memory subsystems; reality monitoring processes (e.g., cues used to distinguish real from imagined events) and source monitoring in general; aging and memory; emotion and cognition; executive processes; autobiographical memory
Jonas, Elizabeth
Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Mitochondrial ion channel; regulation of apoptosis; control of the strength of synaptic transmission in the nervous system
Jordt, Sven-Eric
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Sense of touch and pain in humans and animals; Chemosensory processes in sensory neurons and their role in chemical environmental exposures; Neural sensitization in asthma; Other hypersensitivity disorders
Kaczmarek, Leonard
Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Learning and memory; Ion channels
Keshishian, Haig
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Kidd, Kenneth
Professor of Genetics, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Complex Human Disorders; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Human Population ; Genetics; Human Evolution
Kim, In-Jung
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Development; Visual System; Neural Circuits; Transgenic approaches; Direction Selectivity
Kober, Hedy
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology
Director of Research, Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic
Director, Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab
Research Interests:Regulation of craving; emotion regulation; cognition-emotion interaction; neural mechanisms of change; mindfulness; meditation; fmri methods
Kocsis, Jeffery
Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology
Director , Postdoctoral Studies
Associate Director, Yale Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research
Senior Medical Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs
Research Interests:Transplantation-based approaches toward restoration and preservation of function in the injured central nervous system; Axonal Regeneration; Cell Transplantation; Ion Channels; Nerve Injury; Remyelination; Spinal Cord Injury
Koelle, Michael
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:C. Elegans; G Protein; Neurotransmission; RGS Protein; Serotonin; Molecular Genetics; Neurobiology; Neurotransmitters; Proteins and Macromolecules; Receptors
Koleske, Anthony
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neuronal morphogenesis and degeneration; stress; schizophrenia; cell migration; cancer; metastasis; adhesion receptors
Koser, Hur
Research Scientist in Electrical Engineering
LaMotte, Robert
Professor of Anesthesiology and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Pain; Dorsal root ganglion; Neurons; Electrophysiological; Neurochemical; Itch; Psychophysical; pruritic; Nociceptive sensations; Anesthesiology; Electrophysiology; Nervous System; Neurophysiology; Sensory System
Laubach, Mark
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Associate Fellow, Pierce Laboratory
Research Interests:Basal ganglia; frontal cortex; associative learning; decision making; working memory; multi-electrode recording; advanced statistical analysis; computational models
Lee, Daeyeol
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Research Interests:Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and selection; Neural mechanisms of decision making under uncertainty; Neural mechanisms of inter-temporal choice; Neural mechanisms of token & conditioned reinforcements; Reinforcement learning; Behavioral economics and game theory; Function of primate prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia; Coding and transmission of information in a population of neurons
Levene, Michael
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Levy, Ifat
Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Decision-making; value; Reward; Risk; Ambiguity; Functional MRI
Li, Chiang-Shan
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Psychophysics; Neural imaging
Lim, Janghoo
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair
Research Interests:Mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases; neural development; neurodevelopmental disorders
Lombroso, Paul
Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry
Director, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology
Research Interests:Child and adolescent psychiatry; Neuropharmacology
Louvi, Angeliki
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Vertebrate neural development; mechanisms of brain morphogenesis and pathogenesis; blood-CSF barrier; choroid plexus; hydrocephalus; cerebrovascular disease; cerebral cavernous malformation; neurodevelopmental disorders; CADASIL; Notch signaling; structural brain disorders
Manuelidis, Laura
Professor of Surgery (Neuropathology)
Section Chief Neuropathology (Surgery)
Research Interests:Clinical and experimental models of dementia, with an emphasis on Transmissible Encephalopathies (TSEs); Chronic viral infections of the nervous system
Mazer, Jamie
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Research Interests:Vision; attention; cortex; sensory processing; coordinate systems; neuroethology
McCarthy, Gregory
Professor of Psychology
McCormick, David
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Cellular mechanisms of cortical function; thalomocortical function and modulation
Mooseker, Mark
Ross Granville Harrison Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Cell Biology
and Pathlogy
Research Interests:The cytoskeleton. Epithelial cell biology. molecular motors
Morris, Evan
Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Psychiatry
Co-director for Imaging, Yale PET Center
Research Interests:kinetic modeling; parameter estimation; parametric imaging; dopamine; reward; drug occupancy; drug abuse; alcoholism; Parkinson's disease
Nairn, Angus
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Dopaminergic signal transduction; Structure and function of protein kinases and phosphatases
Nitabach, Michael
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Genetics
Research Interests:Neurophysiology; Molecular genetics; Systems Physiology; Animal Behavior
Pelphrey, Kevin
Harris Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of the Child Neuroscience Laboratory
Research Interests:brain mechanisms; child development; neurodevelopmental disorders
Picciotto, Marina
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Molecular basis of behavior; Intracellular signaling; Mouse genetic models
Pieribone, Vincent
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Neurobiology
Associate Fellow, John B. Pierce Laboratory
Research Interests:Neurophysiology; Neurotransmission; Voltage dye imaging; sensory physiology; drug development; coral biology; fluorescent proteins
Pinango, Maria
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Pittenger, Christopher
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Psychology
Director, Yale OCD Research Clinic
Associate Director, Neuroscience Research Training Program
Research Interests:Learning and memory; Habit; CREB; Adeno-associated virus; Behavioral neurobiology; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Glutamate; obsessive-compulsive disorder; Tourette syndrome
Rakic, Pasko
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology
Department Chair, Neurobiology
Director, Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Research Interests:Central nervous system development
Roth, Robert , Jr
Professor of Psychiatry and of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter function; Psychotropic drugs; Catecholamin-containing neurons
Rudnick, Gary
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter recycling; Mechanism of membrane transport
Saltzman, W. Mark
Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Chemical Engineering
Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:Bio-compatible polymers, drug delivery systems
Santos-Sacchi, Joseph
Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology), of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Mammalian inner ear
Schafe, Glenn
Associate Professor of Psychology
Schwartz, Michael
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Medical Studies in Neurobiology
Asst. Dean for Curriculum, YMS
Research Interests:Mammalian Cerebral Cortex
Sestan, Nenad
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Molecular Evolution and Development of Neuronal Circuits of the Human Cerebral Cortex
Shapiro, Erik
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:Molecular and cellular imaging in preclinical animals studies; development of novel contrast agents for molecular imaging; sodium MRI for musculoskeletal imaging
Sigworth, Frederick
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:Cell Physiology; Electron Microscopy; Electrophysiology; Ion Channel; Mathematical Model; Patch Clamp; Potassium Channel; Protein Structure; Sodium Channel; Voltage Gated Channel; Xenopus Oocyte
Small, Dana
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Fellow, The John B Pierce Laboratory
Research Interests:Neurophysiology of feeding; Chemical senses; Neuroimaging; Dopamine; Addiction; Motivation; Psychophysics; Stress; Obesity
State, Matthew
Donald J. Cohen Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Genetics and of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics
Deputy Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Genetic mechanisms; neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood
Stein, Elke
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Cell Biology
Research Interests:Development of the vertebrate nervous system; Axon Guidance; Dendrite development; Synapse formation; Down Syndrome; DSCAM; Netrin and Slits and their receptors; Signal transduction
Strittmatter, Stephen
Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair
Research Interests:Axon Guidance; Axon Regeneration; Spinal Cord Injury; Molecular Biology; Stroke; Neurodegenerative Disease; Alzheimer's Disease; Fronto-Temporal Dementia
Taylor, Jane
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology
Research Interests:Addiction; Depression; Learning; Memory; Animal Models; Plasticity; Signaling
Tomita, Susumu
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Primary faculty, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair
Research Interests:Synaptic transmission; Brain; Biochemistry; molecular biology; immunocytochemistry; gene-targeted animals; electrophysiology
Vaccarino, Flora
Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neural stem cells; cerebral cortex; neuronal progenitors; tyrosine kinase growth factors; excitatory neurons; GABAergic neurons; postmortem human brain;induced pluripotent stem cells; hypoxia
Van Dyck, Christopher
Professor of Psychiatry, of Neurobiology and of Neurology
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit
Research Interests:Alzheimer's disease; Healthy aging; Cognitive aging; Pharmacotherapy; Neuroimaging; Genetics
Wagner, Allan
James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology
Professor
Wang, Xiao-Jing
Professor of Neurobiology, of Physics and of Psychology
Professor of Physics
Director, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neural circuit function in the brain
Waxman, Stephen
Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Director, Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research
Research Interests:Axons; Electrophysiology; Genes; Ion Channels; Molecular Biology; Multiple Sclerosis; Pain Syndromes; Sodium Channels; Spinal Cord Injury; Stroke
Xu, Tian
Professor of Genetics
Vice Chairman of Genetics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Yale Center for Functional Genomics
Research Interests:Genetic methodology; Cancer biology; Food and metabolism; Developmental mechanisms
Yeckel, Mark
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Synaptic transmission; neuronal integration; emotional stress; learning and memory; working memory; calcium; fluorescence imaging; prefrontal cortex; hippocampus; second messengers
Zenisek, David
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Research Interests:Physiology and cell biology of the presynaptic terminal; Retinal Bipolar Neuron; Synaptic Terminal, Synaptic Ribbons, Vesicle Transport; Exocytosis; Endocytosis
Zhong, Weimin
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:asymmetric cell division; differentiation; neurogenesis; progenitor cell; self-renewal; stem cell
Zhou, Yufeng
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Biochemistry; Cell Physiology; Electron Microscopy; Biophysics; Crystallography; Ion Channels
Zhou, Z. Jimmy
Marvin L. Sears Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Neurobiology
Vice Chairman and Director of Research, Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Research Interests:Physiology and development of the mammalian retina under normal and pathological conditions; Organization and function of retinal synapses and circuits
Zucker, Steven
David and Lucille Packard Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
