November 2025

Congratulations to Stephanie Staszko for earning a K99 Award to study circuits regulating arousal and behavioral responses to visual threats (September 2025)

Research grant to study neural and genomic underpinnings of anxiety, involving collaborations with Drs. Eyiyemisi Damisah, Matthew Girgenti, Robert Pietrzak, Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, and Sarah Fineberg, led by Dr. John Krystal (September 2025)

Stephanie and Aakash selected to give talks at Gordon Research Conferences - Catecholamines (August 2025).

August 2025

Aakash Basu awarded NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship for his work on norepinephrine and second-messenger encoding of temporal threat proximity (July 2025)

Veterans Affairs research grant to study the role of frontal cortex norepinephrine in encoding threat predictive signals and its impact on fear learning, with implications for understanding anxiety and PTSD (June 2025).

Kaye Lab awarded NIMH R56 to study the circuit and subcellular basis of MDMA’s effects on fear (May 2025).

Photo: longitudinal 2-photon imaging of dendritic spines to characterize psychedelic-induced structural changes in frontal cortex (from Jefferson, et al., 2023).

Summer 2024

Frontal Norepinephrine Represents a Threat Prediction Error Under Uncertainty

Spatiotemporal Organization of Prefrontal Norepinephrine Influences Neuronal Activity

Summer 2023

October 2022

Summer 2022

Samira Glaeser-Khan (Wu Tsai Institute) and Jocelyne Rondeau (Kavli Institute) obtained prestigious summer research fellowships for their work (June 2021)

Collaborative research with Dr. Eyiyemisi Damisah on using intracranial EEG to understand threat processing in human epilepsy patients gains funding by the Yale Kavli Institute (May 2021)

Hartford Yard Goats,

September 2021