Michael J Higley, MD/PhD
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Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Psychiatry
Member, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR); Associate Director, MD-PhD ProgramBiography
Dr. Higley studied behavioral neuroscience at Cornell University. He then completed his MD and PhD in the MSTP Program and the laboratory of Dr. Diego Contreras at the University of Pennsylvania. He continued his scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bernardo Sabatini at Harvard Medical School. In 2010, Dr. Higley joined the faculty of the Yale Department of Neuroscience and the Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair (CNNR). He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2020. He has received numerous honors for his research, including a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Klingenstein Fellowship, and most recently the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. Dr. Higley has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is a member of the Wu Tsai Institute. He also serves as an Associate Director for the Yale MD-PhD Program.
Appointments
Neuroscience
ProfessorPrimaryPsychiatry
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
- MD-PhD Program
- Neural Disorders
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Track
- Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair
- Psychiatry
- Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Sabatini Lab
- Harvard Medical School (2010)
- MD/PhD
- University of Pennsylvania (2007)
- BA
- Cornell University (1998)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
Media
Imaging cortical networks during visual task performance.
2-photon imaging of targeted layer 5 corticopontine neurons in mouse visual cortex during the performance of visually-cued eyeblink conditioning.Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse
Glutamatergic excitation and GABAergic inhibition interact in neuronal dendrites.2-photon imaging and uncaging
Synaptic potential and associated Ca transient evoked by focal glutamate uncaging onto a dendritic spine.Simultaneous 2-photon and mesoscopic calcium imaging in the mouse cortex.
Examples demonstrating the simultaneous acquisition of activity from single neurons via 2-photon imaging and global cortical dynamics via mesoscopic imaging.
News
- July 10, 2024
Highlighting Yale’s Neuroscience Research
- April 18, 2024Source: YouTube
A conversation between visual artist and neuroscientist
- October 16, 2023
Recap & Reflections: the Chalk Talk event
- December 18, 2022
Rigor in Experimental design and Analysis of Data (READ)