Cognitive Neurogenetics Lab

How does brain architecture enable us to think, remember, and connect with others? We study this question by treating the brain as fundamentally biosocial—an organ whose organization emerges from continuous interactions between genetic factors and social-environmental experience across the lifespan.

Think of it like having a compass for the brain. To understand cognition, we need to know not just where brain regions are, but why they're organized the way they are. This requires bridging scales: from cellular organization to network dynamics, from individual development to evolutionary time, from molecular mechanisms to lived social experience. Our work integrates ultra-high-resolution neuroimaging, computational modeling, and global population neuroscience to reveal how brain architecture supports cognitive function in health and disease.