Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2021 - Present
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences,
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse.
Journal article Nature · May 13, 2026 Electrical signalling across distinct populations of brain cells underpins cognitive and emotional function. However, approaches that selectively regulate electrical signalling between two cellular components of a mammalian neural circuit remain sparse. He ... Full text Link to item CiteSleep-Wake States Are Encoded across Emotion Regulation Regions of the Mouse Brain.
Journal article eNeuro · November 2025 Emotional dysregulation is highly comorbid with sleep disturbances. Sleep is composed of unique physiological states that are reflected by conserved brain oscillations. Though the role of these state-dependent oscillations in cognitive function has been we ... Full text Link to item CiteElectome network factors: Capturing emotional brain networks related to health and disease.
Journal article Cell Rep Methods · January 22, 2024 Therapeutic development for mental disorders has been slow despite the high worldwide prevalence of illness. Unfortunately, cellular and circuit insights into disease etiology have largely failed to generalize across individuals that carry the same diagnos ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Editing affective network relays to prevent stress induced behavioral pathology
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Hope for Depression Research Foundation · 2026 - 2029Precise neural circuit editing using engineered electrical synapses
ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2027MULTIREGIONAL ELECTRICAL ENCODING OF SOCIAL AGGRESSION
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2021 - 2026View All Grants
Education
University of Pennsylvania ·
2011
Ph.D.