Gabriella Boulting

Gabriella Boulting is an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School. Her laboratory investigates activity-dependent gene regulation in human neuronal development using stem cell models and comparative primate biology.

Dr. Boulting's research examines how sensory experience shapes neural circuit architecture through epigenetic mechanisms and gene regulatory networks. Her work has identified primate-specific activity factors and characterized GABAergic neuron regulomes linked to neurological disorders. The lab employs human stem cells, rodent models, and non-human primate tissue to study evolutionary innovations in brain development.

Her publications reveal molecular signatures of human neuronal specification. Recent studies map thyroid hormone's role in cortical rewiring and identify disease-associated regulatory patterns in inhibitory neurons.