Michael Nitabach

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Michael Nitabach spent his childhood growing up in northern New Jersey and attending the Pingry School. Nitabach has lived in New York City since 1990, when he entered the PhD program in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. He received his scientific training at the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Columbia University, and New York University. He is currently Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Genetics at Yale University, a faculty affiliate of the Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, a member of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, and Visiting Scientist at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His laboratory studies the neural control of innate behaviors in flies and worms using a combination of neurogenetic and physiological approaches.