Zach
Zeisler,
PhD.

I study how the structural and functional organization of frontal and limbic circuits gives rise to advanced cognition in primates. My research combines comparative neuroanatomy, electrophysiology in behaving macaques, and population-level analyses to identify the circuit motifs that support learning, decision-making, and flexible behavior.

I completed my PhD with Peter Rudebeck at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2024, where my thesis used MAPseq-based single-neuron neuroanatomy and cross-species population analyses to characterize the anatomical and physiological organization of amygdala–frontal circuits. I am now continuing in the Rudebeck Lab as a postdoctoral fellow, where my work has shifted toward the circuit physiology of credit assignment in macaques performing reinforcement-learning tasks.