Conor Liston

Conor Liston is an Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine's Graduate School of Medical Sciences, affiliated with the Neuroscience department. His research focuses on understanding how prefrontal cortex circuits contribute to cognitive and emotional processes, particularly in the context of neuropsychiatric diseases.

• Neuroscience PhD Program Faculty
• Affiliated with Sloan Kettering Institute

Research interests include:

• Systems neuroscience and biological psychiatry
• Synaptic remodeling in corticolimbic circuits
• Impact of stress, sleep, and circadian rhythms on adolescent/young adult brain development
• Neural network dynamics in affective disorders

The lab employs optogenetics, two-photon microscopy, behavioral assays, and functional MRI across rodent models, healthy humans, and clinical populations to study circuit dysfunction in psychiatric diseases.