Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos, PhD
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Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Biography
Daniel Colón-Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He completed his B.A. at Harvard University, his PhD in the lab of Dr. Sally Kornbluth at Duke University and was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Kang Shen at Stanford University. The Colón-Ramos lab is interested in how synapses are precisely assembled to build the neuronal architecture that underlies behavior. To address this, they developed tools in the thermotaxis circuit of C. elegans. Their system enables unbiased genetic screens to identify novel pathways that instruct synaptogenesis in vivo, and single-cell manipulation of these pathways to understand how they influence behavior. As mechanisms underlying synapse structure and function are conserved, the research program seeks to enhance our understanding of synaptic cell biology in higher organisms, which may be important for disease.
Appointments
Cell Biology
ProfessorFully JointNeuroscience
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Other Departments & Organizations
- Cell Biology
- Cell Biology Research
- Colon-Ramos lab
- Developmental Cell Biology and Genetics
- Diabetes Research Center
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Track
- Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral fellow
- Stanford University (2008)
- PhD
- Duke University Medical Center (2003)
- AB
- Harvard College (1998)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- May 03, 2024
Hao, Chen, and Bhaskar Honored With 2024 Kavli Postdoctoral Fellowship
- January 24, 2024Source: YaleNews
Powering the Brain: How Energy Is Distributed Within Single Cells
- August 26, 2022
Andrea Cuentas-Condori Named 2022 Hanna Gray Fellow
- April 14, 2022Source: YaleNews
Colón-Ramos Awarded Germany’s Humboldt Prize
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100 College Street
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