Synapses and Circuits
Affiliated Faculty

Assistant Professor
Mark Ansorge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
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Assistant Professor
Rudy Behnia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Rui M. Costa, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience (in Neurology and in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
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Assistant Professor
María de la Paz Fernández
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
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Professor
Jane Dodd, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics / Professor of Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Alex Dranovsky, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC
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Assistant Professor
Yasmine El-Shamayleh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
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Professor
Vincent P. Ferrera, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience (in Psychiatry)
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Professor
Lloyd A. Greene, PhD
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
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Professor
Wesley Grueber, PhD
Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics / Professor of Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Alexander Harris
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, PSY Psych Integrative Neurosci
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Professor
Neil L. Harrison, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology / Professor of Pharmacology
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Professor
Oliver Hobert, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences (Columbia University) and Molecular Biophysics
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Professor
Darcy B. Kelley, PhD
Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Founding and Current Co-Director, Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program
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Professor
Aurel Lazar, PhD
Professor of Electrical Engineering (Columbia University)
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Assistant Professor
E. David Leonardo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC
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Professor
Stavros Lomvardas, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Tom Maniatis, PhD
Evnin Family Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, New York Genome Center Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Investigator, Zuckerman Mind Brain
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Professor
Carol A. Mason, PhD
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology / Neuroscience / Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology)
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Associate Professor
George Z. Mentis, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Neurology)
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Assistant Professor
Jae-eun Kang Miller
Assistant Professor of Systems Neuroscience in Department of Psychiatry
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Professor
Kenneth Miller, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience / Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
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Associate Professor
Umrao Monani, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Neurology)
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Associate Professor
Livio Pellizzoni, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Associate Professor of Neurology,Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Department of Neurology, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease
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Professor
Franck Polleux, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
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Associate Professor
Nathaniel Sawtell, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
Lawrence S. Shapiro, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology and in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center) / Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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Assistant Professor
Nikhil Sharma
Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Pharmacology
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Professor
Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology / Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D. Professor of Neuroscience
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Professor
David Sulzer, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology) at CUMC
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Associate Professor
Clarissa Waites, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology / Neuroscience (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
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Associate Professor
Guang Yang, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiological Sciences (in Anesthesiology)
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Professor
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences (Columbia University)
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Professor
Charles Zuker, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics / Neuroscience