Neuroscience Faculty
Nii Addy
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
Meenakshi Alreja
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
Amy Arnsten
Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Member, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience at Yale University
Research Interests:Molecular influences on higher cognitive function
Slav Bagriantsev
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Sensory physiology; Biophysics; Biochemistry; Neuroscience; Electrophysiology; Polymodal ion channels; Temperature-sensitive ion channels; Mechanosensitive ion channels; Two-pore potassium channels; Ion channel pharmacology
Thomas Biederer
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Research Interests:Biochemistry of membrane proteins; molecular and cellular neuroscience; synapse formation
Hilary Blumberg
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
Hal Blumenfeld
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
Angelique Bordey
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neurogenesis; stem cells; mTOR; Neural stem cell; Cognitive functions; autism
William Cafferty
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Jessica Cardin
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Cortex; Inhibitory interneuron; Oscillation; Electrophysiology; Vision; Schizophrenia; Epilepsy; Intracellular; Network
John Carlson
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:Drosophila, olfaction, taste, Anopheles, mosquito
Sreeganga Chandra
Assistant Professor of Neurology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:Presynaptic Biology; Synapse Maintenance; Parkinson's Disease; Neurodegeneration
Marvin Chun
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); attention; memory; decision making; executive control; perception
Lawrence Cohen
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Brain; Central Nervous System; Neurons; Vertebrate Physiology; Olfaction; Olfactory Bulb; Protein Sensors of Voltage and Calcium
Daniel Colon-Ramos
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
Research Interests:Neural connectivity; Brain; Nematode C. elegans
R. Todd Constable
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
Michael Crair
William Ziegler III Professor of Neurobiology and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Director, Graduate Studies
Research Interests:Neural circuit development; synapse formation; visual system development; cortex development
Pietro De Camilli
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
Nihal deLanerolle
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
Jonathan Demb
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Functional circuitry of the retina; Cellular basis of visual adaptation; Neural plasticity; Mechanisms of retinal disease
Sabrina Diano
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology
Director, Reproductive Neurosciences Group
Research Interests:Metabolism Regulation
Ralph DiLeone
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Addictions; Animal Behavior; Ethology; Animal Nutrition; Diseases and Disorders; Drug Abuse; Eating Disorders; Etiology; Evolution; Genetic Manipulation; Natural History; Obesity; Psychiatry
Ronald Duman
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
Barbara Ehrlich
Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Intracellular calcium regulation
Paul Forscher
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
Martin Garcia-Castro
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Elena Gracheva
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Sensory physiology, molecular adaptations, hibernation, thermoregulation, ion channels, neuroscience
Charles Greer
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
June Gruber
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Bipolar Disorder; Psychophysiology; Neuroimaging
Jaime Grutzendler
Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology
Director, Yale Center for Experimental Neuroimaging (YCEN)
Research Interests:Two-photon microscopy; Neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's; Blood-brain barrier; Microvasculature; Synapses; Neuroinflammation; Microglia; Astrocyte; Endothelium, myelin imaging
Murat Gunel
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
David Hafler
Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology
Chair, Department of Neurology
Research Interests:Neuroimmunology; Multiple Sclerosis; Autoimmunity; Genetics; Immunobiology
Marc Hammarlund
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:Axon regeneration and degeneration; Neuronal plasticity; Femtosecond laser surgery; C. elegans neurobiology
Michael Higley
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Primary Member, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR)
Member, Kavli Institute fir Neuroscience
Research Interests:Synaptic integration; GABAergic interneurons; Inhibition; 2-photon; Electrophysiology
Tamas Horvath
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
D. S. Fahmeed Hyder
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)
Marcia Johnson
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
Elizabeth Jonas
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
Sven-Eric Jordt
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; Hypersensitivity disorders
Leonard Kaczmarek
Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Learning and memory; Ion channels
Erdem Karatekin
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Membrane fusion, exocytosis, secretory vesicle dynamics, fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, microfluidics, supported bilayers, proteoliposomes
Haig Keshishian
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Kenneth Kidd
Professor of Genetics, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Complex Human Disorders; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Human Population ; Genetics; Human Evolution
In-Jung Kim
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Development; Visual System; Neural Circuits; Transgenic approaches; Direction Selectivity
Hedy Kober
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
Jeffery Kocsis
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
Michael Koelle
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
Anthony Koleske
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Neuronal morphogenesis and degeneration; stress; schizophrenia; cell migration; cancer; metastasis; adhesion receptors
Robert LaMotte
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
Mark Laubach
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Associate Fellow, Pierce Laboratory
Research Interests:Basal ganglia; Frontal cortex; Associative learning; Decision making; Working memory; Multi-electrode recording; Reversible inactivation methods, including optogenetic techniques; Intra-cranial drug administration; Advanced statistical analysis; Computational models
Daeyeol Lee
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
Michael Levene
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ifat Levy
Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Decision-making; Value; Reward; Risk; Ambiguity; Functional MRI
Chiang-Shan Li
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Psychophysics; Neural imaging
Janghoo Lim
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:Mechanisms of neural development, neurological disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases
Paul Lombroso
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
Angeliki Louvi
Associate 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
Laura Manuelidis
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
Jamie Mazer
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology
Research Interests:Vision; attention; cortex; sensory processing; coordinate systems; neuroethology
Gregory McCarthy
Professor of Psychology
David McCormick
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology
Vice Director, Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Research Interests:Cellular mechanisms of cortical function; thalamocortical function and modulation
Mark Mooseker
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
Evan Morris
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
Angus Nairn
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Dopaminergic signal transduction; Structure and function of protein kinases and phosphatases
Michael Nitabach
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Genetics
Research Interests:Neurophysiology; Molecular genetics; Systems Physiology; Animal Behavior
Kevin Pelphrey
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
Marina Picciotto
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
Vincent Pieribone
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
Maria Pinango
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Christopher Pittenger
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
Pasko Rakic
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
Robert Roth, Jr
Professor of Psychiatry and of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter function; Psychotropic drugs; Catecholamine-containing neurons
Gary Rudnick
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter recycling; Mechanism of membrane transport
W. Mark Saltzman
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
Joseph Santos-Sacchi
Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology), of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Mammalian inner ear
Glenn Schafe
Associate Professor of Psychology
Michael Schwartz
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Medical Studies in Neurobiology
Associate Dean for Curriculum, YMS
Research Interests:Mammalian cerebral cortex
Nenad Sestan
Professor of Neurobiology
Research Interests:Evolution and development of neuronal circuits of the human cerebral cortex
Frederick Sigworth
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
Dana Small
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
Matthew State
Donald J. Cohen Professor (Adjunct) 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
Stephen Strittmatter
Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neurobiology
Director, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair
Director, Adler Memory Clinic in Neurology
Research Interests:Axon Guidance; Axon Regeneration; Spinal Cord Injury; Molecular Biology; Stroke; Neurodegenerative Disease; Alzheimer's Disease; Fronto-Temporal Dementia
Jane Taylor
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology
Research Interests:Addiction; Depression; Learning; Memory; Animal Models; Plasticity; Signaling
Susumu Tomita
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Synaptic transmission; Brain; Biochemistry; molecular biology; immunocytochemistry; gene-targeted animals; electrophysiology
Flora Vaccarino
Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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
Christopher van Dyck
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurobiology
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit
Research Interests:Alzheimer's disease; Healthy aging; Cognitive aging; Pharmacotherapy; Neuroimaging; Genetics
Allan Wagner
James Rowland Angell Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Professor
Stephen Waxman
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
Tian Xu
Professor of Genetics
Vice Chairman of Genetics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research Interests:Genetic methodology; Cancer biology; Food and metabolism; Developmental mechanisms
David Zenisek
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
Weimin Zhong
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Interests:asymmetric cell division; differentiation; neurogenesis; progenitor cell; self-renewal; stem cell
Z. Jimmy Zhou
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
Steven Zucker
David and Lucille Packard Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
