Eviatar Yemini

Eviatar Yemini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, affiliated with the T.H. Chan School of Medicine and the NeuroNexus Institute. He holds academic roles in multiple departments including the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. His research focuses on understanding how nervous systems evolve and develop to produce new behaviors, using the C. elegans model organism. He pioneered tools like NeuroPAL, a multicolor neuronal identification method, and Worm Tracker 2.0 for behavioral analysis.

Yemini earned a BA from Columbia University, an MS in Computational Neurobiology from UC San Diego, and a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Cambridge, supported by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship (2007-2011). He is also a recipient of the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neurosciences (2022-2025).

His lab investigates nervous system reconfiguration across development and evolution, combining genetics, microscopy, and computational approaches. Key projects include studying juvenile/sexual development’s impact on neural circuits and expanding NeuroPAL to other organisms. They develop tools for whole-brain imaging, neuronal activity tracking, and systems-biology modeling at single-cell resolution.

Publications highlight his work on neuronal identification algorithms, functional connectome analysis, and genetic regulation of nervous system development. Collaborations span computational biology, microscopy engineering, and systems neuroscience.