Alex Kwan, PhD
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Biography
Dr. Kwan received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University. At Cornell, he developed nonlinear optical microscopes in the laboratory of Watt Webb. In 2009, he went to the University of California, Berkeley to work in the laboratory of Yang Dan, where he studied cortical microcircuits. He joined the faculty at Yale School of Medicine in 2013.
Research in the Kwan lab focuses on the mouse medial frontal cortex. We are interested in how dendritic plasticity may underlie the actions of psychiatric drugs and how cortical circuits enable flexible decision-making. Our expertise lies in developing and applying optical methods to record and control neural activity in behaving mice.
Education & Training
- PostdoctoralUniversity of California, Berkeley (2009 - 2013) (2013)
- PhDCornell University (2009)
- MSCornell University (2007)
- BSSimon Fraser University (2003)
Departments & Organizations
- Division of Molecular Psychiatry
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Kwan Lab
- Neural Disorders
- Neurocognition, Neurocomputation, and Neurogenetics, Division of
- Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP)
- Office of Cooperative Research
- Psychiatry
- Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)