Yvette Fisher

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yvetteefisher@gmail.com @yvetteefisher

Welcome, I am Yvette Fisher. I am a neuroscientist interested in understanding network flexibility at the level of single neuron biophysic and neuronal circuit dynamics. I’m currently as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Rachel Wilson in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School.

I’ll be opening my own lab at UC Berkeley MCB department and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute in July 2021. Check out our new lab website here!

My research employs a range of approaches including genetic manipulation, two-photon calcium imaging, in vivo electrophysiology, and behavioral analysis. Using these approaches I study how the properties of single neurons and the communication between groups of neurons allow the brain to compute and how these computations are modified overtime to adapt to an organism’s current enviroment and internal conditions. I receive funding for my postdoctoral research from the HHMI Hanna Gray fellowship.

During my PhD, I worked with Tom Clandinin at Stanford where my research focused on neural mechanism of visual motion detection and genetic tool development in Drosophila. Check out my dissertation here.

Prior to my PhD I worked with Michael Levine at UCLA studying neuronal communication in the basal ganglia.