WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director, Animal Behavior Core Assistant Director, Animal Behavior Subunit of IDDRC@WUSTL Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Carla Yuede, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Psychiatry Department, with joint appointments in Neurology and Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She graduated from Missouri State University in 2000 with a BS in Psychology and Biomedical Science, and received her Ph.D in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. During graduate school, she began a collaboration with the newly formed Animal Behavior Core (ABC) at Washington University and completed her dissertation research on the long-term behavioral effects of neonatal NMDA receptor antagonism under the guidance of Dr. David Wozniak (Psychiatry) in the lab of Dr. John Olney (Psychiatry). Following graduation, she completed a postdoc studying the effects of stress on Alzheimer's disease pathology with Dr. John Csernansky (Psychiatry). In 2012, she became faculty in the Neurology department at Washington University working with Dr. John Cirrito to develop micro-immunoelectrodes (MIEs) to study rapid kinetics of beta amyloid and other peptides involved in Alzheimer's disease. With the Cirrito lab, the MIE technology has been optimized and expanded to detect several different proteins and peptides, including SARS-CoV-2. In 2017, Carla became Assistant Director of the Animal Behavior Core Laboratory and continued to focus her research on cognitive and behavioral impairments in animal models of neurodegeneration. As Director of the Animal Behavior Core, she is primarily involved in research focused on behavioral phenotyping of adult animals and neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as biological/physiological changes occurring in the brain leading to impairments or improvements in memory function.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry at WUSTL
Joe is a Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry at WUSTL. He is broadly interested in how a single genome creates the cellular diversity that is discovered in the brain, and how perturbations of specific cell types in the brain may lead to disorders of the nervous system, as well as alterations of normal behavior. His lab approaches these questions using the tools of mouse transgenics and conditional knockouts, but guides the studies using information gleaned from human genetics studies
Job Titles:
- Research Assistant
- Research Assistant from O'Fallon
Katie McCullough is a research assistant from O'Fallon, MO. She graduated from Drake University in Biochemistry. Her undergrad research focused on genetic elements of swine flu. When she started in the lab, she discovered her love of neuroscience and animal behavior. Outside the lab, she has 2 dogs (Shiloh and Astro) and a tortoise (Francis). She loves reading and subscribe to all thing's true crime. Her fears: Heights and spiders.
Raylynn Swift is a research technician in the lab supporting mouse behavioral research. She graduated from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2020 with a Master's degree in psychology with an emphasis in behavioral neuroscience. At home, she has two rat roommates and is working on expanding her houseplant collection.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. I received my Ph.D. in Psychology with a Behavioral Neuroscience emphasis from the University of Missouri - St. Louis and completed my thesis work on the neurotoxic and behavioral consequences of clinically-relevant early postnatal anesthesia exposure as a graduate researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at WUSTL. In 2012, I joined the lab of Dr. Joseph Dougherty in the Department of Genetics at WUSM as a postdoc to study autism behavioral genetics. I joined the WUSTL Department of Psychiatry faculty in 2017. My current research centers on the impact of genetic and environmental liabilities for intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD) on neural circuit function. Within the Intellectual and Developmental Disorders Research Center at WUSTL, I serve as Co-Director of both the Model Systems Core and the Animal Behavior Subunit, which provides rodent model behavioral characterization and analysis to IDD Investigators. In addition, I am Assistant Director of the Animal Behavior Core at WUSTL.