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Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Department Head and Matoula S. Salapatas Professor in Materials Science and Engineering

Yubin Cai’s research explores the intricate mechanisms of gut-brain communication and evaluates the effects of gastric electrical stimulation on brain health and behavior.

Postdoctoral fellow Danlei Chen’s research investigates how sleep-dependent neural and bodily rhythms regulate cerebrospinal fluid flow and how this process contributes to waste clearance in the human brain, aiming to uncover individual and age-related differences that shape resilience and support long-term brain health.

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences & Human Behavior

Kyla Nichols aims to uncover how mucus facilitates estrogen metabolism and availability by the gut microbiome and how this could influence sex-based differences seen in mental health disorders via the gut-brain axis.

Emily Robinson studies mechanisms for how the lungs and brain communicate in asthma with the goal of developing new therapies.

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering