Behavioral and Cognitive Impairment

A learning disability interferes with the brain's ability to retain, process, and produce information.

Using rabies to track the neural circuitry underlying behavior

Research Highlight November 10, 2021 Learn More

Using machine learning to analyze mouse behavior

Research Highlight April 05, 2021 Learn More

News and Insights

Research HighlightNovember 10, 2021

Using rabies to track the neural circuitry underlying behavior

Research HighlightApril 05, 2021

Using machine learning to analyze mouse behavior

Blog Post August 12, 2020

JAX Diversity Outbred Mice: A Genetically Diverse Mouse for a Diverse Human Population

Blog Post February 19, 2019

If you’re happy and you know it, thank your bugs

Research HighlightDecember 14, 2018

Gene knockdown induces deficits reminiscent of aging and Alzheimer's

Search MagazineDecember 06, 2016

Addiction is not a moral failure

Research HighlightDecember 01, 2016

Discovering the genetic basis of sleep regulation

Blog Post May 23, 2016

Toward a better understanding of behavior, biology and addiction

Research & Faculty

The Chesler Lab

Researches the genetics underlying behavior and identifies relationships among behavioral traits.

Elissa J. Chesler, Ph.D.

Elissa J. Chesler, Ph.D.

Professor, The Ann Watson Symington Chair in Addiction Research

Jason Bubier, Ph.D.

Jason Bubier, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Karen Svenson, Ph.D.

Karen Svenson, Ph.D.

Sr. Scientific Program Manager/Research Scientist

Laurent Bogdanik, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Laurent Bogdanik, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Study Director

Vivek Kumar, Ph.D.

Vivek Kumar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor