New Faculty

Eitan Schechtman, PhD

Assistant Professor Neurobiology and Behavior

Professor Schechtman uses neuroimaging, behavioral manipulations, and computational methods to explore memory reactivation during sleep in humans. His lab combines novel techniques to selectively bias memory reactivation; machine-learning algorithms to decipher memoryrelated content from neural data; and neuroscientific methods for monitoring brain connectivity and rhythms in different regions and timescales. Using this state-of-the-art methodological framework, the lab hopes to reveal the neural infrastructure through which sleep transforms memories, and how these dynamics may be harnessed for improving well-being in healthy and clinical populations.

Nir Drayman, PhD

Assistant Professor Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Professor Drayman specializes in studying the interactions between disease causing viruses and the human cells they infect, at the singlecell level. While our cells are genetically identical to one another, they show remarkable variability in their traits and their resistance to viruses. Using state-of-theart techniques in cell biology, imaging and machine learning the Drayman lab hopes to understand the molecular components of cells that make them resistant to viral infections, thereby unlocking novel ways to develop antiviral therapies.

Benjamin Morehouse, PhD

Assistant Professor Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Professor Morehouse studies the evolution and diversification of antiviral immunity. Many of the innate immune defenses employed by plants and animals are surprisingly conserved in bacteria and archaea. Identifying and characterizing the immune processes that are shared among diverse organisms may be useful in developing new therapeutic strategies to protect us from pathogenic microbes. The Morehouse lab is particularly focused on the enzymes, chemical signals, and receptors that mediate antiviral responses across the tree of life and aims to use protein structural analysis and biochemical approaches to improve our molecular understanding of these ancient immune signaling pathways.