Department of Psychiatry Guest Speaker

“Mechanisms of Vesicular Dopamine Release in the Central Nervous System and Beyond”  

Zachary Freyberg, MD, PhD 

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University

Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Hospital

Tuesday, January 19

9:00 - 10:00 am

Biomedical Science Tower, Room 1695

Dr. Freyberg is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia and an Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Through his research he aims to understand the molecular mechanisms of vesicular dopamine release in psychiatric disorders, including psychostimulant abuse and antipsychotic drug-induced metabolic side effects. Using the fly model, he studies the mechanisms of amphetamine-mediated downstream intracellular signaling in dopamine D2R-expressing postsynaptic neurons. Through his other work he aims to elucidate the primary sites of action critical in mediating the development of antipsychotic drug-induced metabolic disturbances. Dr. Freyberg did his MD/PhD training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency at Cornell.