Dmitriy Aronov, Ph.D.

Aronov is an associate professor of neuroscience at Columbia University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. at MIT, working on the song system of zebra finches. Hen then worked as a postdoc at Princeton University, researching the rodent hippocampus. In his lab, he developed food-caching birds called chickadees as a new model system for neuroscience research. His team develops behavioral paradigms for working on the natural behavior of these wild birds in the lab. They also work on miniaturized technologies for recording and manipulations in the chickadee brain. By using this exciting new system, Aronov’s lab hopes to gain insight into the neural mechanisms of episodic memory.