Leadership
The Wu Tsai Institute is a new model for neuroscience research. Its joint academic and administrative leadership work as a team, in close collaboration with talented faculty and staff and with advisory bodies of internal and external stakeholders. Together they foster and champion research that is accelerating our understanding of human cognition.
Institute Directors
The Wu Tsai Institute is a university-wide organization that spans multiple Yale schools and departments and that covers a broad range of scientific disciplines that contribute to our mission. This breadth is reflected in the leadership team, consisting of an overall Institute Director (Nick Turk-Browne), Associate Directors who each direct one of the Centers (Daniel Colón-Ramos, John Lafferty), and a Managing Director (Kelley Remole).
Institute Committees
The scale and ambition of the Wu Tsai Institute requires ideas and contributions from thought leaders throughout Yale and beyond. A Steering Committee of Deans, Chairs, and at-large faculty provides guidance and oversight, and helps disseminate information to our many constituent communities. A world-class External Advisory Board offers outside counsel and shares experience from peer institutions. Additional faculty committees within the Institute provide representation, transparency, and engagement on many Institute programs and activities, including a Hiring Committee, Membership Committee, Award Committees, and several working groups and interest areas. The voices of trainees are heard through the Student and Postdoc Committee.
Steering Committee
Jutta Joormann, Co-chair
Stephen Strittmatter, Co-chair
Amy Arnsten, At-large
Abhishek Bhattacharjee, At-large
Jeffrey Brock, Ex officio
John Carlson, At-large
Joseph Chang, , Ex officio
Daniel Colón-Ramos
Michael Crair, Ex officio
James Duncan, Ex officio
Anna Gilbert, At-large
Larry Gladney, Ex officio
Murat Gunel, Ex officio
David Hafler, Ex officio
Scott Holley, Ex officio
Anthony Koleske, Ex officio
John Krystal, Ex officio
John Lafferty
Linda Mayes, Ex officio
Gregory McCarthy, At-large
Marina Picciotto, At-large
Kenneth Scheve, Ex officio
Zhong Shao, Ex officio
Dan Spielman, Ex officio
Nick Turk-Browne
External Advisory Board
Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University
James DiCarlo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leslie Greengard, New York University and Flatiron Institute
Carla Shatz, Stanford University
Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University
Hiring Committee
Nick Turk-Browne, Professor of Psychology, Chair
Nii Addy, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Amy Arnsten, Professor of Neuroscience
Damon Clark, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Daniel Colón-Ramos, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Elizabeth Goldfarb, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Julian Jara-Ettinger, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Smita Krishnaswamy, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Genetics
John Lafferty, Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Ifat Levy, Professor of Comparative Medicine
Rajit Manohar, Professor of Electrical Engineering
John Murray, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Priya Panda, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Student and Postdoc Committee
Gustavo Madeira Santana, Co-chair
Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Co-chair
Sheri Dawoon Choi
Evyn Dickinson
Leah Harmon
Violet Kimble
Yuexuan Li
Pablo Munoz LLancao
Lam Vo
Tristan Yates