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James Jeanne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine. He holds affiliations with the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology, as well as the Wu Tsai Institute. His research focuses on understanding how neural circuits implement computations supporting behavior, particularly in Drosophila melanogaster. He earned a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2005), a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from UC San Diego (2012), and completed postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School (2017).
- Primary Research Themes: Sensory processing, working memory, decision-making, and neural circuit mechanisms in Drosophila
- Techniques: 2-photon optogenetics, whole-cell electrophysiology, connectomics, and calcium imaging
Recent awards include the 2020 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship and 2019 Smith Family Foundation Award. His lab investigates how circuit architecture enables flexible behavioral responses to sensory stimuli, with recent work exploring synaptic plasticity's role in odor tracking and decision-making algorithms in mushroom body circuits.
Key collaborations include work with Rachel Wilson (Harvard), Timothy Gentner, and Tatyana Sharpee. His team has published in high-impact journals like Nature Communications, Current Biology, and Neuron.
