Affiliation: Tel Aviv University, Sagol School of Neuroscience and The School of Psychological Sciences

Dr. Barak is an Assistant Professor in Sagol School of Neuroscience and The School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University. In lab, his team study the neurobiological mechanisms responsible for abnormal social and anxiety-like behaviors in genetic neuropsychiatric disorders such as Williams syndrome and autism. Dr. Barak’s laboratory special interests are neurogenetics and neurodevelopmental aspects of psychiatric disorders, myelin and behavior interplay, functional neuroanatomy of the social brain, molecular processes and cell signaling, and therapeutic approaches. He did his postdoctoral advanced training with Prof. Guoping Feng at MIT, and his PhD thesis on synaptic transmission in Prof. Uri Ashery’s laboratory at Tel Aviv University. He is the recipient of various prizes and fellowships, among them The Alon Fellowship for outstanding young faculty, and Dan David prize scholarship for young promising researchers. Dr. Barak was involved in various research projects at University of California, Berkeley, NIH and more, and graduated in Biology with honors from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a prestigious author of scientific articles published in world-leading journals, such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Molecular Psychiatry, eLife, PNAS and more.