Lab updates

We are thrilled to begin our work at the Integrated Sciences Academy, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dr. Godavarthi has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the Integrated Sciences Academy, supported by the Simons Foundation Empire Faculty Fellowship Program. The lab will open in August 2026.

Our work showing that prenatal immune activation drives GABA-to-glutamate switching in prefrontal cortex interneurons — and that this switch causally produces autism-like social and behavioral deficits in adult mice — is now published in PNAS. Critically, overriding the switch in neonates prevents the adult behavioral deficits. Read the paper ↗

We demonstrate that postsynaptic neurotransmitter receptors actively stabilize presynaptic transmitter identity through receptor-specific transsynaptic adhesion complexes — defining a new molecular mechanism for how transmitter-receptor pairs are specified and maintained at synapses. Published in PNAS. Read the paper ↗