Piali Sengupta is a full professor in the Department of Biology, the Volen Center for Complex Systems, and the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis. Her work is funded by the NSF, and NIH. Her lab's work focuses on understanding how animals sense environmental cues such as chemicals and temperature, and how this information is then translated into changes in development and behavior. Identifying the genes, neurons and circuits that underlie sensory transduction provides information about how organisms, including humans, interact with their environment, and how defects in the ability to process sensory signals lead to neurological and developmental disorders. Awards and Honors Keynote speaker, Pan Asia Worm Meeting, Seoul, Korea (declined) (2018) Elected Treasurer, Genetics Society of America (2017 - 2019) Keynote speaker, BARD workshop on chemosensation, Israel (declined) (2017) Plenary speaker, International Worm Meeting, UCLA (2017) Plenary speaker, Symposium on development of sensory systems, Tel-Aviv, Israel (2017) DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lecture, NIGMS, NIH (2015) NIH/NIGMS MERIT award (2010) Wellington Award (internal Award) (1998 - 1999) David and Lucille Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering ($500,000) (1997 - 2002) Whitehall Award (1997 - 2000) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship AND Searle Scholars Award (1996) American Cancer Society Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994 - 1995) American Cancer Society Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship (1992 - 1994) European Fellowship for hightest achievement in academics (1985) Shippen Scholarship for excellence in science (1984)

Neurogenetics