Karly Tegang Matsingang

Born and raised in Yaounde, Cameroon, Karly moved to the US at the age of 17 in order to attend college. She started her education at Westchester Community College before transferring to Columbia University, where she graduated with Honors in Biological Sciences. At Columbia, she fell in love with research as an undergraduate research assistant in the Karsenty Lab, where she studied the communication between bone and brain tissue in mice. After graduating from Columbia University in 2020, she worked for three years in the laboratory of Rene Hen at Columbia Psychiatry. In the Hen Lab, she investigated the behavioral and circuit mechanisms of pro-neurogenic compounds in mice as well as the impact of early-life stress on the susceptibility to psychiatric disorders later in life. As an MD-PhD student at the Yale School of Medicine, Karly is excited to continue exploring the neural circuits altered in psychiatric disorders.