Richard B. Simerly, Ph.D.

The major focus of this laboratory is to determine how environmental factors utilize endocrine signals to direct formation of limbic-hypothalamic circuitry to exert a lasting impact on how those circuits process and transmit information affecting physiology and behavior. Our technical approach utilizes molecular genetic tools to visualize, measure and manipulate neural circuits to gain a brain-wide understanding of how circuit architecture defines homeostatic phenotypes.