Rebecca Melrose, PhD Linkedin Google My research uses a combination of MRI (task based fMRI, resting state fMRI, DTI) and neuropsychological testing to understand changes to the neural circuitry supporting executive functioning in patients at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). I am also interested in understanding changes to day to day functioning in aging and […]
Swati Rane Levendovszky, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google The primary focus of my research is the development of novel perfusion imaging approaches to better understand cerebrovascular pathology. Specifically, I am interested in investigating the relation of hemodynamic factors such as cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral blood volume (CBV) as well as metabolic demands or oxygen
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Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD Linkedin Twitter Facebook Google Jennifer Yokoyama obtained her doctorate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics from UCSF in December 2010 with Dr. Steven Hamilton (Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Human Genetics). Her dissertation comprised work within the Canine Behavioral Genetics Project, utilizing purebred dogs as genetic models for studying neuropsychiatric disease.
Roger Lefort, PhD Linkedin Twitter The main focus of my lab is to elucidate the molecular mechanism(s) leading to synaptic dysfunction and synaptic pruning in various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington disease. Our research has implicated the Rho-family GTPases, RhoA and Rac1, as key players in these synaptopathies. RhoA and Rac1 play critical
Chadwick Hales, PhD Chad completed a bachelors of science in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, followed by M.D, Ph.D. training at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. He then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, for internal medicine internship, neurology residency and fellowship in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry
Jeremy Herskowitz, PhD Twitter Google Dr. Herskowitz received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. He earned a Ph.D in Microbiology at Emory University, where he studied mechanisms of gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis in the laboratory of Dr. Samuel Speck. He remained at Emory University for postdoctoral studies and
Syed Abid Hussaini, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Dr. Hussaini received his PhD in Neurobiology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. In his postdoctoral training here at Columbia University in the department of Neuroscience, he studied the function of hippocampal neurons (place cells) and entorhinal cortex neurons (grid cells) which are known to be important for memory
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Celeste Karch, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google The goal of Dr. Karch’s research is to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying tauopathies. As a graduate student, she studied the basic mechanisms by which mutant SOD1 protein aggregates in cell and mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Karch expanded her research
Shannon Macauley, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Shannon L. Macauley earned her BA in Biology and Psychology from Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT) and worked in translational neuroscience at Genzyme Corporation (Boston, MA) prior to graduate school. Dr. Macauley completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Washington University (St. Louis, MO) with Dr. Mark Sands and her postdoctoral
Dongming Cai, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Dr. Cai joined Mount Sinai in July 2010, where she continues to advance our understanding of the workings of the central nervous system and the processes involved in defining disease mechanisms. Prior to coming to Mount Sinai, Dr. Cai was trained by many prestigious basic research scientists. After graduated
