Priya Rajasethupathy

Priya Rajasethupathy is the Jonathan M. Nelson Family Associate Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neural Dynamics & Cognition at the Rockefeller University. Rajasethupathy and her team bridge functional genomics and systems neuroscience to provide cross-disciplinary insights into the coordinated, distributed, and dynamic representations of memory. They perform genetic mapping for unbiased discovery of the genes, cell types, and circuits relevant for memory across different time scales. In parallel, the lab develops and applies technologies to record high resolution neural activity from these relevant circuits and over chronic timescales in the behaving animal. Through a convergence of these approaches, Rajasethupathy and her team aim to reveal the molecular, structural, and functional changes governing the evolution of a memory, and ultimately further the understanding of cognitive processes during health and disease. Rajasethupathy obtained her B.A. from Cornell University and an M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Columbia University, working with Eric Kandel.