Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Dr. Catherine Dulac is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Dulac grew up in Montpellier, France, graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University before joining Harvard University as a faculty member and served as Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology from 2007 till 2013. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She is a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur and a recipient of multiple awards including the Karl Spencer Lashley Award, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of numerous Scientific Advisory Boards in the US and abroad and served as the Co-Chair of the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD), BRAIN Initiative 2.0 Working Group. She is a member of Harvard Center for Brain Science and of the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research at Harvard University. Dr. Dulac’s work has made essential contributions to the molecular and functional identification of neural circuits underlying instinctive social behaviors in mice, and to the study of genomic imprinting in the adult and developing brain. Dr. Dulac’s laboratory has helped decipher the unique characteristics of social recognition, including the sensory cues that trigger distinct social behaviors, the nature and identity of social behavior circuits in males and females and their modulation by the animal physiological status. Her work combines cutting edge genetics, transcriptomics, physiology and imaging approaches to uncover the neural basis underlying instinctive social behaviors, a set of brain functions that are typically highly impaired in mental illness. In recent work, her laboratory has deciphered how the brain controls parenting behavior in both males and females, and how different parts of the brain participate in the positive and negative controls of parental care.
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