Dietrich LabPhysiology of Behavior

Yale School of Medicine

Dietrich Lab

Laboratory of Physiology of Behavior

We study how the brain and body communicate to shape behavior and health — from the neural circuits that build social behavior in early life, to the crosstalk between the immune system and the brain, to what an extraordinary mammal reveals about reproduction and individuality.

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What we study

What we study

  • Neurons repurposed to regulate age-specific needs in infancy and adolescence
  • Neural coding that represents a parent and soothes infant distress
  • Response of the developing brain to separation and trauma
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  • Immune sensing of food allergens that modify behavior
  • Gut–brain circuits that turn an allergic reaction into a whole-body response
  • How metabolic state reprograms tissue-resident immune cells
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  • Embryonic diapause: pausing mammalian development and aging for years
  • Obligate polyembryony: one fertilized egg, four genetically identical offspring
  • The origins of individuality from identical genomes
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We are based at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and we are actively recruiting curious scientists.

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Yale School of Medicine
Brady Memorial Laboratory, Suite 330C
310 Cedar Street
New Haven, Connecticut