How do brain circuits work?
Faculty
Richard Born
Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Randy Buckner
Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
SueYeon Chung
Assistant Professor of Physics
Adam Cohen
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics
S. Robert Datta
Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Benjamin de Bivort
Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Michael Do
Associate Professor of Neurology, HMS
Jan Drugowitsch
Associate Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Florian Engert
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Mark Fishman
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Aleena Garner
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Donhee Ham
John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Christopher Harvey
Associate Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Takao Hensch
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Gabriel Kreiman
Professor of Ophthalmology, HMS
Sam Kunes
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Albert Lee
Associate Professor of Neurology, HMS and BIDMC
Margaret Livingstone
Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Venkatesh Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Bence Ölveczky
Processor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Core Francisco Park
CBS-NTT fellow
Hongkun Park
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Farhad Pashakhanloo
CBS-NTT fellow
Cengiz Pehlevan
Professor of Applied Mathematics, SEAS
Carlos Ponce
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Kanaka Rajan
Member of the Faculty of Neurobiology
Sharad Ramanathan
Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics
Aravinthan Samuel
Professor of Physics
Joshua Sanes
Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Haim Sompolinsky
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Physics in Residence
Naoshige Uchida
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Leslie Valiant
T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, SEAS
Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida
Research Fellow, Center for Brain Science
Rachel Wilson
Martin Family Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Jacob Zavatone-Veth
Associate, Center for Brain Science
Yun Zhang
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
News and Publications
- Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampusYaghoubi M, Kumar MG, Nieto-Posadas A, Mosser CA, Gisiger T, Wilson É, Pehlevan C, Williams S, Brandon MP….
- Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamicsBukwich M, Campbell MG, Zoltowski D, Kingsbury L, Tomov MS, Stern J, Kim HR, Drugowitsch J, Linderman SW, Uchida N….
- Molecular and neural control of social hierarchy by a forebrain-thalamocortical circuitNelson AC, Kapoor V, Vaughn E, Gnanasegaram JA, Rubinstein ND, Talay M, Murthy VN, Dulac C….
- Environmental microbiomes drive chemotactile sensation in octopusSepela RJ, Jiang H, Shin YH, Hautala TL, Clardy J, Hibbs RE, Bellono NW….
- The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus miceBaier F, Reinhard K, Nuttin B, Sans-Dublanc A, Liu C, Tong V, Murmann JS, Wierda K, Farrow K, Hoekstra HE….
- A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasisLiu D, Rahman M, Johnson A, Amo R, Tsutsui-Kimura I, Sullivan ZA, Pena N, Talay M, Logeman BL, Finkbeiner S, Qian L, Choi S, Capo-Battaglia A, Abdus-Saboor I, Ginty DD, Uchida N, Watabe-Uchida M, Dulac C….
- Margaret Livingstone receives Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical ResearchCongratulations to Marge on this award, which she shares with Winrich Freiwald, Nancy Kanwisher, and Doris Tsao! Follow the link to read more….
- Catherine Dulac made Officer of the Légion d’honneurCongratulations to Catherine who, having been appointed in 2022, was awarded the medal in Boston on October 26, 2024!…
- Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives NIH Director’s Early Independence AwardCongratulations to Jacob, a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows! The award will fund his work on recurrent neural network theory. Follow the link to more information….
- How the tempo of sequence memories can be set by learning rulesFarrell M and Pehlevan C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Aug 6;121(32):e2309876121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2309876121…
- Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neuronsAmo R, Uchida N, Watabe-Uchida M. Neuron. 2024 Jan 22:S0896-6273(23)00979-0. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.019. PMID: 38278147…
- GSAS highlights Buckner lab studentWendy Sun, an MD/PhD student in BBS, is profiled for her work in the CBS Neuroimaging Core…