# Neurobiology

**Source**: https://biology.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/areas-of-research/neurobiology/
**Parent**: https://biology.mit.edu/

synapse formation, maintenance, and pruning • learning and memory • behavior • neuronal cell fate and diversity • axonal guidance • diseases of the nervous system

## [Faculty](https://biology.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty/?research-area%5B%5D=neurobiology)

#### [H. Robert Horvitz](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/h-robert-horvitz/)

#### [Siniša Hrvatin](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/sinisa-hrvatin/)

#### [Rudolf Jaenisch](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/rudolf-jaenisch/)

#### [Troy Littleton](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/troy-littleton/)

#### [Elly Nedivi](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/elly-nedivi/)

#### [Sara Prescott](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/sara-prescott/)

#### [Zuri Sullivan](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/zuri-sullivan/)

#### [Susumu Tonegawa](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/susumu-tonegawa/)

#### [Brandon (Brady) Weissbourd](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/brandon-weissbourd/)

#### [Matthew A. Wilson](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/matthew-a-wilson/)

*Faculty Spotlight*

### [Elly Nedivi](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/elly-nedivi/)

*William R. (1964) and Linda R. Young Professor of Neuroscience*

Elly Nedivi studies the mechanisms underlying brain circuit plasticity — characterizing the genes and proteins involved, as well as visualizing synaptic and neuronal remodeling in the living mouse brain.