Neuroscience News at Yale

In this week's #TraineeTuesday, we feature Reagan Lamb, PhD, a postdoctoral associate recently awarded the Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Experimental Track at Yale. This fellowship provides three years of funding for Reagan to pursue interdisciplinary research, combining her background of genetics and molecular biology.

This #TraineeTuesday, meet Lisa Baik, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in Yale’s Carlson Lab who recently published her findings on mosquito behavior in the journal Nature. Her work explores critical yet understudied topics: the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) and the mosquito taste system. Specifically, Lisa investigates how mosquitoes taste their environment, including human skin, and how taste perception influences their behavior—particularly their decision to bite.

This #TraineeTuesday, we introduce Sydney Cason, PhD, a Postdoctoral Associate in the De Camilli Lab! She was recently awarded the Life Sciences Research Foundation (LSRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship, a prestigious private award that provides three years of salary and research allowance.

Yale researchers take a deep dive into studies about hearing, nanowire assembly, heart imaging, photosynthesis, Tourette disorder, and AI in scientific writing.

Using functional brain imaging and machine learning, Yale researchers were able to predict PTSD symptoms 14 months after the initial traumatic event.

Axonal spheroids may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease by hindering neuronal communication. Researchers have found a way to shrink them.

Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center, of neuroscience and of pharmacology, has been elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Yale School of Medicine now ranks third in the nation for NIH funding, according to the most recent report from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

New gene-editing treatments being developed at Yale School of Medicine give hope to those with rare genetic diseases, such as Angelman syndrome.