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  • Rafael Yuste
  • Andrew Murphy
  • Conrad Stern-Ascher
  • Darcy Peterka
  • Jae-eun Miller
  • Kira Poskanzer
  • Mahesh Karnani
  • Masakazu Agetsuma
  • Vivek Kanumuri
  • Yeonsook Shin
  • Former Lab Members

  • Rafael Yuste

    Professor

    Office: 212-854-2354 Lab: 212-854-5023 Fax: 212-865-8246 Email: rmy5@columbia.edu

    Rafael Yuste was born in Madrid, where he attended the Ramiro de Maeztu High School and studied Medicine at the Universidad Autonoma and the Fundacion Jimenez Diaz Hospital. After a brief period in Sydney Brenner's group at the LMB in Cambridge, he did his Ph.D. work with Larry Katz in Torsten Wiesel’s laboratory, at Rockefeller University in New York. He then moved to Bell Labs, where he was a postdoctoral student of David Tank and also worked with Winfried Denk. In 1996 he joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is currently Tenured Professor. In 2005 he became HHMI Investigator and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Circuits at Columbia. Since 1997 he is visiting researcher in Javier DeFelipe’s laboratory at the Cajal Institute in Madrid. Yuste was responsible for the introduction of calcium imaging as a method to monitor the activity of neuronal circuits and is interested in the structure and function of cortical circuits, the biophysical properties of dendritic spines and the pathophysiology of epilepsy.

    HHMI Profile

    Kavli Foundation Profile

    COSI Seminar Talk

    Taking apart the circuits of the brain with light

    Mountain climbing brain scientist sees parallels between his two passions

    Through engineering, a new look at the brain

    $10 million gift to support new biological imaging lab (scroll down)

    NWC Building: "Big, tough, and tender"

    Mapping the Brain

    Researchers Use Diamonds to Watch the Brain at Work

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  • Andrew Murphy

    Laboratory Technician

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: andrewcpmurphy@gmail.com

  • Conrad Stern-Ascher

    Laboratory Technician

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: cs3022@columbia.edu

  • Darcy Peterka

    Research Specialist

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: dp2403@columbia.edu

  • Jae-eun Miller

    Postdoctoral Research Scientist

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: jkm2149@columbia.edu

  • Kira Poskanzer

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: kp2248@columbia.edu

    PhD, UCSF 2006, Graeme Davis Lab

  • Mahesh Karnani

    Pending Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: mmk37@cam.ac.uk

  • Masakazu Agetsuma

    Postdoctoral Research Scientist

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: ma3064@columbia.edu

  • Vivek Kanumuri

    HHMI Fellow

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: vvk2109@columbia.edu

  • Yeonsook Shin

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Lab: 212-854-5023   Fax: 212-865-8246   Email: ys2431@columbia.edu