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Nilay Yapici
Assistant Professor; Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Arts and Sciences/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Contact Information
W153 Seeley G. Mudd
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
p:
(607) 254-4321
Nilay Yapici
Assistant Professor; Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences
Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Arts and Sciences/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Expertise
Neurogenetics; neuro-imaging; quantitative behavior; molecular biology; neural circuits
Current Research Interest
Molecular and neural basis of food intake decisions
Distinction
Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) Grant for Junior Faculty
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
Human Frontiers Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Selected Participant)
Sloan Research Fellowships for Early-Career Scholars
Selected Publications
Yapici, Nilay. "Mechanosensation: Too Hard or Too Soft?" Current Biology 30, no.16 (2020): R936-R939.
Yapici, Nilay, Raphael Cohn, Christian Schusterreiter, Vanessa Ruta, and Leslie B. Vosshall. "A Taste Circuit that Regulates Ingestion by Integrating Food and Hunger Signals." Cell 165, no. 3 (2016): 715–729.