Shadé Eleazer

Shadé graduated cum laude with departmental honors from Marymount Manhattan College, where she earned a Bachelors of Science in Behavioral Neuroscience and Biomedical Sciences. During her undergraduate career she had numerous research opportunities in the New York City area including Mount Sinai Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, and at Rockefeller University where she was a Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Undergraduate Research Fellow in Dr. Vanessa Ruta’s laboratory.

Shadé is excited to continue her education as a graduate student in Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. Broadly, she is interested in neural systems and how circuitry can influence behavioral outputs and is excited to apply and expand her skill set in Dr. Elena Gracheva's lab. Shadé is also a Wu Tsai Institute graduate fellow.