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Introduction to the Training Program in Social Neuroscience Research

The T32 training grant supports an integrated pre/postdoctoral program of training in social neuroscience research for late-stage graduate students and early-stage postdoctoral fellows interested in pursuing careers in the neurobiology of social processing.

Program Overview

The overarching goal of the unified and integrated Training Program is to provide rigorous, broad-based, individualized, and multidisciplinary training with enhanced opportunities for mentoring, collaboration, and career development for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in social neuroscience research relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Program Structure

Trainees participate in an integrated program of:

• Coursework
• Laboratory training
• Testing/evaluation
• Training activities
• Teaching opportunities
• Mentoring
• Career development activities

Research Focus

While focusing on training in basic social neuroscience research, the Training Program exposes students to the range of basic, translational, and clinical scientific approaches and model systems represented at Mount Sinai, from:

• Structure/function analysis of individual synapses
• Computational modeling of gene, protein, and connectivity networks in healthy and diseased brains
• Behavioral, electrophysiological, and imaging studies of a variety of organisms, including humans

Training Faculty

The Training Faculty are united by a general thematic focus: investigating how molecular/epigenetic phenomenon and synaptic
eural plasticity influence circuit development or function to control social behavior impaired in neurological and psychiatric disease.

Program Directors

• Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD: Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology
• Scott J Russo, PhD: Professor and Director of the Center for Affective Neuroscience and the Brain-Body Research Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Current Trainees

• Samuel Allen: MD/PhD student in the Morishita Lab, researching the developmental mechanisms that regulate cognitive circuit maturation in both health and disease
• Veronika Kondev, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Nestler Lab, investigating the neuronal and circuit mechanisms through which dopamine modulates vHPC-dependent behavior

Upcoming Events

• 2/13/25: Brielle R. Ferguson, PhD, from the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital
• 3/13/25: Jessica Walsh, PhD, from UNC