The human brain remains one of the last frontiers of scientific exploration. As the command center of the central nervous system, it orchestrates everything from basic survival functions to complex higher-order activities like processing sensory information, regulating motor skills, and shaping our emotions, memories, and judgment. These intricate functions are controlled by the interplay of genes, neural circuits, and the interactions between neurons and glial cells.

The Lab of Affective Trait & Translational Epigenetics (LATTE) is dedicated to unraveling these fundamental brain mechanisms using mouse models. Our research focuses on elucidating these processes through a comprehensive suite of advanced techniques, including genetics, optogenetics, chemogenetics, histology, neural circuit tracing, electrophysiology, and in-vivo brain imaging.