Stories by Hillel Adesnik

Hillel Adesnik is an assistant professor neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley. His lab studies the neural basis of sensory perception using optical, genetic, and electrophysiological approaches.  He obtained his PhD from UCSF researching the molecular basis of learning and memory, followed by a fellowship at UCSD where he worked on the neural circuitry of the cerebral cortex. Born and raised in New York City he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and eight year old puggle.