Dr. Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at New York University Langone Health. Dr. Basu earned her bachelors degree in Physiology (B.Sc. Hon.’s) from Presidency College in Calcutta, India. In 2002, Jayeeta received a Masters degree in Neuroscience at the International Max Planck Research School, Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany for her research with Dr. Christian Rosenmund and Dr. Erwin Neher on the kinetics of neurotransmitter release. She then completed her Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine, where her thesis focused on molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle release and short-term plasticity in hippocampal cultured neurons. In 2007, Dr. Basu joined Dr. Steven Siegelbaum’s laboratory at Columbia University for her post-doctoral training. She examined how excitatory and inhibitory circuits interact to shape dendritic integration, timing-dependent plasticity, and learning behavior in the hippocampus. In her own lab, Dr. Basu aims to identify synaptic and behavioral correlates of learning-related activity in genetically defined circuits of the mammalian hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. Her research combines mouse genetics with electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, and behavior to parse out the synaptic, cellular, and circuit mechanisms of learning.
