Yohan Auguste

Yohan graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in neuroscience and music, where he studied protein-protein interactions at synapses and their effects on plasticity in the Roche Lab. After college, he joined the Cheadle Lab at CSHL and discovered that oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) engulf synapses in the developing mouse visual cortex. Now, as a Neurosciences PhD student in the Gibson Lab, Yohan uses viral and electrophysiological approaches to study neuron-OPC synapses with hopes of understanding how OPCs are integrated into, and alter, neuronal circuits. Outside of lab, Yohan enjoys racing on the Stanford triathlon team, doing karate, and aquascaping.