Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
We aim to understand how genes, molecules, cells, and neural circuits interact to give rise to brain development and behavior, and to apply this knowledge to advance treatments for brain disorders.
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- 📢In 2027, Yale New Haven Hospital will open the ✨Adams Neurosciences Center✨—a cutting-edge hub for innovative neurological & neurosurgical care 🧠 serving patients nationwide! 🌎 Read more about this new center here👇 www.ynhh.org/services/neu...
- In a new study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers found that people with autism have fewer glutamate receptors 🧬, potentially causing an imbalance of excitatory & inhibitory signaling in the brain. 🔬✨ More 👇 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...
- In a new @nature.com com study, @gocastelobranco.bsky.social and @yale.edu's Di Zhang used spatial tri-omics to uncover shared molecular programs active during both brain development 🧠 and neuroinflammation! Read More Here👇 engineering.yale.edu/news-and-eve...
- 🚨Applications for 2026's @kavliatyale.bsky.social Fellowships and Awards are officially open! 🚨 For more information on eligibility, application, and funding details 👇 medicine.yale.edu/kavli/initia...
- In a new study, @yale.edu's Shane Elliott, Paul Ready, and the @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social identified 2 genes🧬that control how cells assemble & dismantle cilia—pointing to new strategies for treating diseases linked to ciliary breakdown! Read More Here👇 news.yale.edu/2025/10/29/n...
- In a new study led by @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Adam de Havenon, researchers found a surprising rise📈in the percentage of young adults 🧑🤝🧑 reporting cognitive impairments🧠⬇️ Read more about their findings & the potential public health implications here 👇 news.yale.edu/2025/09/24/g...
- In a new article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Dr. John Krystal discusses treatment-resistant depression: what it is, how it is diagnosed, and how new therapies are offering hope beyond traditional treatments! 🧠 Read More 👇 www.everydayhealth.com/depression/t...
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- In a new @natcomms.nature.com study led by @georgedragoi.bsky.social and Yuchen Zhou 🥼, researchers reveal how the hippocampus builds and updates internal maps 🗺️ of our surroundings—helping us navigate new & unexpected spaces! Read More 👇 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceJoin us next Thursday (10/23) for #SYNAPSES, a senior postdoc symposium @yaleneuro.bsky.social @kavliatyale.bsky.social Talks will be given by: - @annrosebright.bsky.social, PhD👩🔬 - Peter Hasenhuetl, PhD 🔬 - Minhyeok Chang, PhD 🧑🔬 - @zhenggang.bsky.social, PhD 🥼 Register Today! Yale only.
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- Happy Monday! 🍁🍂 Kick off your week to a great start by registering for THIS FRIDAY's (10/17) ✨ @kavliatyale.bsky.social Networking Hour✨ Food & drinks will be provided. Thank you to the @mhigley.bsky.social lab for hosting! Open to all Yale neuroscientists - registration required & limited.
- Thank you to everyone who joined this year’s @kavliatyale.bsky.social Chalk Talk - there were many of you! And a big thank you to our incredible speakers @schandralab.bsky.social and @trevorsorrells.bsky.social, and all the faculty who gave feedback to postdocs during their mock chalk talks.
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceI thought we would never work on gamma oscillations again, but I was wrong 🤷♀️ So happy to see this work out in @nature.com! This was a truly epic project spearheaded by @q-perrenoud.bsky.social. Gamma isn't always an oscillation, but it's critical for sensory encoding and perceptual performance 🧠
- Music might be keeping your mind sharp! 🎶🧠 In a new @buzzfeed.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Fesharaki-Zadeh, MD, PhD, explains how making music can help build your brain’s cognitive reserve, keeping it resilient 🛡️ against aging & disease.
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceWTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
- In a recent @cp-neuron.bsky.social study, @dscheinost.bsky.social and @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jean Ye found that neural variability 🧠—brain fluctuations that support flexible behavior—increases 📈 through childhood 👶before stabilizing in adolescence🧍
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- In a new @usatoday.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's John Krystal, MD, both advocates for and cautions the use of ketamine therapy in teenagers suffering from depression.
- Supported by a $5M @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Depts of Neurosurgery & Psychiatry have launched a study to uncover the neural & genomic mechanisms driving anxiety. Initial pilot work was funded by Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health + @kavliatyale.bsky.social
- A new @journalofnucmed.bsky.social study shows how a novel PET radiotracer (SV2A) can track synaptic changes in a rat's spinal cord & brain post-injury. @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jason Cai, PhD: "Our work has potential to revolutionize the way spinal cord injury is diagnosed."
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- Wonder why social needs differ from childhood to adulthood? 🤱➡️🧑 In a new @currentbiology.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers, led by Marcelo Dietrich, found that Agrp neurons in the hypothalamus 🧠 drive social needs during youth but slowly lose this role in adulthood.
- In a new study led by @kavliatyale.bsky.social graduate student @kathy-ayala.bsky.social 👩🔬, researchers studied 51 pregnant women in their third trimester🤰 and found that higher fetal movement was linked to stronger maternal-fetal attachment.🤱✨ Read more here 👇
- 📅 Mark your calendars and join us Thursday, Oct 9, for the 2025 edition of the Kavli Chalk Talk! 🧠 Learn from @schandralab.bsky.social & @trevorsorrells.bsky.social about what makes a great chalk talk 👩🏫🗣️ and senior postdocs can practice their own. Register by Sept 25! (Yale only) 👇
- Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for last Friday’s @kavliatyale.bsky.social Networking Hour, hosted by @colon-ramos-lab.bsky.social! 🙌 Missed it? No worries—you’ll have another chance at the next one! 😉🎉
- 🚨LAST CHANCE TO APPLY🚨 Senior postdocs — the deadline to apply for #SYNAPSES is THIS SUNDAY! Don’t miss this chance to showcase your latest work at our in-person symposium 🧠✨ on Oct 23, 2025. @yaleneuro.bsky.social Apply Today! 👇
- Fantastic work from the labs of @stevewcchang.bsky.social, @neuralnandy.bsky.social, and Monika Jadi, led by Olivia Meisner & Weikang Shi. Our Kavli Institute is proud to have supported this research through our neurotechnology core (marmoset apparatus for automated pulling).
- Super excited to share this new collaborative work - marmosets use diverse and highly flexible strategies when they cooperate. These strategies are powerfully determined by both social factors (sex, dominance, familiarity) & individual partner identity. www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceIt is great to welcome @shariwiseman.bsky.social (back) to Yale along with the Yale Neuro Postdoc Committee [YNPC], @kavliatyale.bsky.social, and @yaleneuro.bsky.social ! Pictures are of her first talk to a packed room of trainees, about scientific publishing and related careers
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceExcited to share my first-author paper in Early Human Development! Using objective monitoring, we found more frequent fetal movement is associated with stronger maternal–fetal attachment, offering new insight into bonding during pregnancy. #MaternalHealth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceHow do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence
- This week's #TraineeTuesday is Aya Khalaf, PhD! Aya is a postdoc in the Blumenfeld lab in #Yale Neurology. She recently published an article in NeuroImage showing how different senses—vision, hearing, touch, and taste—activate the same deep brain regions during transitions in attention [1/5]
- The analysis of massive fMRI datasets shed light into the fundamental mechanisms of attention and consciousness, which could lead to better targeted therapies for epilepsy and other consciousness-related conditions. [2/5]
- With a BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University in Egypt and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Aya has strong computational skills that she applies to answer clinical and translational research questions to improve patient care. [3/5]
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View full threadIn the future, Aya aims to lead a lab focused on understanding the brain network dysfunction in epilepsy and other neurological disorders, with the ultimate goal to improve patient quality of life. Best of luck, Aya! [5/5]
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- In a recent @natneuro.nature.com article, a team led by @yifeicai.bsky.social & @jgrutzendler.bsky.social used protein tagging, mass spectrometry, & expansion microscopy 🔬to explore how the protein composition at the myelin-axon interface differs in Alzheimer's 🧪
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceVery proud of our new #SingleCell work on #PTSD and #MDD out in @nature.com today. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and views: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Press: medicine.yale.edu/news-article... Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Code: github.com/mjgirgenti/P...
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- Mark your calendars 🗓️ for June 23 for a Kavli Awards Research in Progress!🧠 Hear from Drs. Bhaskar (@krishnaswamylab.bsky.social), @lashaeneuroxp.bsky.social, Chen (@emonetlab.bsky.social), Martinez-Magaña (@janitzamontalvo.bsky.social), @kuanawanda.bsky.social, Teefe, & @haohy.bsky.social.
- Meet this week's✨ #TraineeTuesday: Soraya Scuderi, PhD!👩🔬✨ Soraya is an Associate Research Scientist in the Vaccarino Lab & recently published a @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social study introducing DuoMAPS —a revolutionary brain-on-a-chip platform 🧠💻 that better models neural tube regionalization. [1/5]
- Soraya’s earlier research focused on forebrain-patterned organoids 🧫 & resulted in one of the first comparative ⚖️ epigenomic-transcriptomic analyses against human fetal brain tissue 🧠👶 This work shaped Soraya's scientific vision, leading her to help develop DuoMAPS [2/5]
- Soraya found working on DuoMAPS incredibly rewarding and dedicated years to its development. Her hard work paid off, and this year, Soraya was given the honor of presenting the seminal tool at the International Cortical Development from Stem Cells to Circuits conference in Italy 🙌 [3/5]
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View full threadCurrently, Soraya is working toward launching her own lab 🥼and remains committed to developing spatially patterned brain organoids 🧫🔬 to contribute to both basic discovery & translational insights! We can't wait to see what she does next! 🙌 [5/5]
- In a new @natmicrobiol.nature.com study, @yale.edu researchers showed that contrary to popular belief, typhoid toxin (leading to typhoid fever) damages the blood-brain barrier endothelial cells —not neurons— paving the way for new therapies. 🧪
- Reposted by Yale Kavli Institute for NeuroscienceIn our most recent paper, we uncover the myelin-axon interactome in human brains and reveal molecular perturbations and structural disruptions at the myelin-axon interface in Alzheimer’s disease @jgrutzendler.bsky.social @epetsalaki.bsky.social @reimand.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- A recent pair of @natgenet.nature.com studies co-led by @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's @roelverhaak.bsky.social & @kevin-johnson.bsky.social sheds light on glioblastoma 👁️, the heterogeneity of its cellular composition, and how these cells evolve with time 🧬🔬 #BrainCancer @yalecancer.bsky.social
- Congrats to @yale.edu senior Parisa Vaziri on winning the 2025 Kavli at Yale Undergraduate Thesis Prize 🏆! Working with @mcdb-yale.bsky.social's Damon Clark, her thesis uncovered a novel auditory illusion👂& the algorithms underlying it. Next, she'll pursue a PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard.
- Congrats to @yale.edu Neuroscience senior Zach Moynihan on winning the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Undergraduate Thesis Prize! 🧠 During his thesis, titled “Application of predictive score to identify novel microcephaly genes”, Zach was mentored by Drs. Tanyeri Barak & Adife Gülhan Ercan-Sencicek.
- In a new @nature.com study, a team of @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers led by Tomomi Yoshida, Andrew Wang & David Hafler, found evidence of T cells in the brains of healthy mice and humans —not only as a response to infection— uncovering a new form of gut-brain communication.
- In a new @plosone.org study, a @yale.edu team of researchers led by Laura Manuelidis, MD, developed the first cellular model of a latent Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease infection —similar to mad cow disease— revealing how specific conditions can switch the infection on and off.
- In a new @elife.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social’s Anthony Koleske, Amanda Jeng, & Yevheniia Ishchenko revealed how 3 variants of the gene TRIO 🧬 drive distinct neurodevelopmental disorders 🧠 by altering communication between neurons.
- Join us THIS FRIDAY 🗓️, June 6, for @yale.edu's ✨NextGen in #STEM Conference✨ to learn from scientists who took different career trajectories, and connect with faculty and industry professionals. Organized by grad student and Kavli scholar April Pruitt and faculty member @ehoffmanlab.bsky.social.
- In a new study, @yale.edu's Hirsch lab used neuroimaging & real-time eye contact 👁️ to study the social brain 🧑🤝🧑🧠 and found that people with First Episode Psychosis showed comparatively less brain activity in a key area related to social cognition.
- Mark your calendars 🗓️ for June 23 for a Kavli Awards Research in Progress!🧠 Hear from Drs. Bhaskar (@krishnaswamylab.bsky.social), @lashaeneuroxp.bsky.social, Chen (@emonetlab.bsky.social), Martinez-Magaña (@janitzamontalvo.bsky.social), @kuanawanda.bsky.social, Teefe, & @haohy.bsky.social.
- In a new study, a team of @yale.edu researchers led by Aya Khalaf & Hal Blumenfeld from Yale Neurology analyzed fMRI data and found that multiple senses 👁️✋👂👅 activate the same two deep brain hubs that control consciousness 🧠—the midbrain reticular formation and central thalamus.
- Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year's @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture 🗣️ & a huge thank you to the amazing Erika Holzbaur 🙌 for sharing her insights! 🧠
- 🚨HAPPENING TOMORROW🚨 Don’t miss the 2025 ✨ @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture✨ with @pennmedicine.bsky.social's Erika Holzbaur, PhD! All @yale.edu affiliates are welcome — you’ll want to be there 🧠🥂
- 🚨HAPPENING TOMORROW🚨 Don’t miss the 2025 ✨ @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture✨ with @pennmedicine.bsky.social's Erika Holzbaur, PhD! All @yale.edu affiliates are welcome — you’ll want to be there 🧠🥂
- In 1️⃣ week! On May 20th, we are delighted to host Erika Holzbaur, PhD, from @pennmedicine.bsky.social, who will give the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture ✨ This event is open to all Yale affiliates, and a reception will follow.
- Calling all @yaleneuro.bsky.social postgrads, grad students & postdocs! 🧠Join us for a workshop on the Essentials of Mentoring🤝 led by @yale.edu 's Dr. Suzanne Young 🙌 📅 Wed., May 21 | 🕙 10am–12pm 📍 Room 180A See flyer for more details and info on how to register 👇
- In 1️⃣ week! On May 20th, we are delighted to host Erika Holzbaur, PhD, from @pennmedicine.bsky.social, who will give the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture ✨ This event is open to all Yale affiliates, and a reception will follow.
- In a new @yale.edu study, researchers led by @mattgirgenti.bsky.social from #YalePsychiatry used a comprehensive multi-omic approach to analyze postmortem brain 🧠 genomics and investigate the molecular differences 🧬 in PTSD and major depressive disorder 🔍
- Meet @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate James Rothman & renowned neuroscientist Joy Hirsch — #YaleMed profs 🥼, Branford College fellows, and hosts of monthly science dinners at Mory’s 🧠🍽️ Together, they blend world-class research with everyday life @yale.edu
