Lab Members

Claudio Acuna-Goycolea, PhD

Interests: Whole cell patch clamp recording to study mechanisms of peptide action on identified hypothalamic neurons regulating energy homeostasis.
claudio.acuna-goycolea@yale.edu

John N Davis, MS

Interests: Molecular neurobiology. Single cell RT-PCR of identified neurons. Sequencing and use of laboratory-generated oncolytic viruses to combat brain cancer.
john.n.davis@yale.edu

Li-Ying Lily Fu MD, PhD

Interests: Lateral and medial hypothalamus neurophysiology; physiology of cognitive arousal circuits; whole cell patch clamp recording of hypothalamic neurons (containing hypocretin, MCH, GABA, or glutamate) involved in energy and sleep homeostasis.
li-ying.fu@yale.edu

Prabhat Ghosh, PhD

Interests: Neurovirology; Molecular virology; Recombinant molecular biology to generate novel viruses and viral vectors for treatment of brain disease.
prabhat.ghosh@yale.edu

Winson Ho, Yale Medical Student

Interests: Role that neurotropic viruses play in altering cellular communication in brain, particularly related to cellular calcium.
winson.ho@yale.edu

Hao Huang, MD

Interests: Hypothalamic and thalamic electrophysiology; metabotropic glutamate and cannabinoid receptors in hypothalamus, particularly in hypocretin/orexin and MCH neurons;   neuromodulators.
hao.huang@yale.edu

Ying Li, MD, PhD

Interests: Neurophysiology of hypocretin neurons that regulate cognitive arousal and a wake-state. Cellular phyiology of GABA excitation in early development of hypothalamus.
ying.li@yale.edu

Patrick Maloney, Yale Medical Student

Interests: Protection of brain against oncolytic viruses used to eliminate brain cancer.
patrick.maloney@yale.edu

Koray Ozduman, MD

Interests: Neurosurgical and viral treatment of brain tumors. Use of vesicular stomatitis virus and parvovirus to kill high grade and metastasizing brain cancer.

Vitaliy Rogulin, MS

Interests. Use of molecular neurobiology to generate transgenic rodent models expressing reporter genes useful for neurophysiology.
vitaliy.rogulin@yale.edu

Yang Yang, MD

Interests: Light and electron microscope immunocytochemistry and brain culture approaches to understanding development of hypothalamic brain circuits that regulate energy homeostasis.
yang.wang@yale.edu

Yang Yao, MD

Interests: Role of hypothalamic peptides in modulating neuronal activity. Neurophysiological consequences of viral infections in brain studied with patch clamp recording.

Guido Wollmann, MD

Interests: Use of lab-generated replication competent oncolytic viruses to treat brain cancer. Mechanisms of cell selection by negative strand oncolytic RNA viruses. Role of interferon in controlling cytomegalovirus and vesicular stomatitis virus infection in brain.
guido.wollmann@yale.edu