Priya Rajasethupathy

Priyamvada (Priya) Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D., is the Jonathan M. Nelson Family Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University and an American neurobiologist known for studying neural circuits underlying memory.
Biography
Priya received her B.A. in Biology from Cornell University in 2004 and her M.D.-Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2013, under the training of Eric Kandel, studying how DNA modifications after learning lead to lasting memories. During her Ph.D., she characterized piRNAs, regulatory RNA molecules important to these epigenetic DNA modifications in Aplysia and looked at their role in long-term memory. Priya then began her Postdoctoral Fellowship with Karl Deisseroth's laboratory at Stanford University where she used optogenetics to study brain circuits crucial to the retrieval of memories.
Publications
Rajasethupathy, P. et al. Targeting neural circuits. Cell 165, 524-534 (2016). doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.047.
Sylwestrak, E. et al. Multiplexed intact tissue transcriptional analysis at cellular resolution. Cell 164, 792-804 (2016). doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.038.
Rajasethupathy, P. et al. Projections from neocortex mediate top-down control of memory retrieval. Nature 526, 653-659 (2015). doi:10.1038/nature15389.
Rajasethupathy, P. et al. A role for neuronal piRNAs in the epigenetic control of memory-related synaptic plasticity. Cell 149, 693-707 (2012). doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.02.057.
Rajasethupathy, P. et al. Characterization of small RNAs in Aplysia reveals a role for miR-124 in constraining synaptic plasticity through CREB. Neuron 63, 803-817 (2009). doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.05.029.
Awards
National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Award, 2015
Top 10 early-career scientist, Science News, 2015
Life Sciences Research Foundation Award, 2013
Kavli Graduate Student Award, 2012
Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, 2012

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