Carla Yuede, PhD

Carla Yuede, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Psychiatry Department, with joint appointments in Neurology and Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She graduated from Missouri State University in 2000 with a BS in Psychology and Biomedical Science, and received her Ph.D in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. During graduate school, she began a collaboration with the newly formed Animal Behavior Core (ABC) at Washington University and completed her dissertation research on the long-term behavioral effects of neonatal NMDA receptor antagonism under the guidance of Dr. David Wozniak (Psychiatry) in the lab of Dr. John Olney (Psychiatry).  Following graduation, she completed a postdoc studying the effects of stress on Alzheimer’s disease pathology with Dr. John Csernansky (Psychiatry). In 2012, she became faculty in the Neurology department at Washington University working with Dr. John Cirrito to develop micro-immunoelectrodes (MIEs) to study rapid kinetics of beta amyloid and other peptides involved in Alzheimer’s disease. With the Cirrito lab, the MIE technology has been optimized and expanded to detect several different proteins and peptides, including SARS-CoV-2. In 2017, Carla became Assistant Director of the Animal Behavior Core Laboratory and continued to focus her research on cognitive and behavioral impairments in animal models of neurodegeneration. As Director of the Animal Behavior Core, she is primarily involved in research focused on behavioral phenotyping of adult animals and neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as biological/physiological changes occurring in the brain leading to impairments or improvements in memory function.