Weissbourd
Brandon
Assistant Professor
Biology
Investigator
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Faculty Appointment
Joint
About
Brady Weissbourd joined the MIT Biology faculty and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in 2023 after working as a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of David Anderson at Caltech. He earned his PhD in 2016 at Stanford University in the lab of Liqun Luo. His undergraduate studies in Human Evolutionary Biology took place at Harvard University where he earned a BA in 2009.
Publications
Key Publications:
- Whole-animal multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq reveals transcriptional shifts across Clytia medusa cell types. Chari, T, Weissbourd, B, Gehring, J, Ferraioli, A, Leclère, L, Herl, M, Gao, F, Chevalier, S, Copley, RR, Houliston, E et al.. 2021. Sci Adv 7, eabh1683. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abh1683 PMID:34826233
- A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience. Weissbourd, B, Momose, T, Nair, A, Kennedy, A, Hunt, B, Anderson, DJ. 2021. Cell 184, 5854-5868.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.10.021 PMID:34822783
Awards + Honors
- Searle Scholar Award, 2024
- Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience, 2023
- Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2020
- Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow, 2017