Yifei Cai

Associate Research Scientist in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Collaborators and trainees (selected)


Jaime Grutzendler, MD

Dr. Harry M. Zimmerman and Dr. Nicholas and Viola Spinelli Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Yale University

Collaboration: Postdoc training mentor

Angus Nairn, PhD

Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University

Collaboration: Postdoc training co-mentor on proteomics

Kristen Brennand, PhD

Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University

Collaboration: Postdoc training co-mentor on iPSC modeling

Evangelia Petsalaki, PhD

Group Leader, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

Collaboration: Bioinformatics on cell-cell communication and signaling


Jüri Reimand, PhD

Investigator, OICR 
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

Collaboration: Bioinformatics on multi-omics integration

Anita Huttner, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology
Yale University

Collaboration: postmortem human brain specimens

Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD

Professor of Physiology, Cellular Biophysics and Neuroscience; Codirector of Columbia's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Precision Psychiatry and Mental Health; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

Collaboration: Graduate training (visiting) mentor

Bin Xu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center

Collaboration: Graduate training (visiting) co-mentor on neurogenetics and iPSC modeling

Jun Wan, MD, PhD

Professor in Neurobiology at Peking University Health Science Center;
Head of the Office, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology

Collaboration: Graduate training mentor

Rachel Welch

2019-2021.  Undergraduate trainee, Yale College
Awarded Yale undergraduate fellowship

Current: MD/PHD Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Amber Braker

2020-2022.  Undergraduate trainee, Yale College

Awarded Yale undergraduate fellowship
Accomplished undergraduate thesis project

Zichen Tian

2020-2021.  Undergraduate intern, Carleton College
Awarded undergraduate internship fellowship
Current: PhD Program at Mayo Clinics

Derek Goshay

2020-2021.  Undergraduate trainee, Yale College

Accomplished undergraduate thesis project

Tram Huynh

2022-2024   Postgraduate Associate trainee
Contribution: Myelin-axon pathology projects

Current: Phd Program at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Maurice Peiyang Tang

2022-2023  Postgraduate Associate trainee
Contribution: Myelin-axon pathology project

Current: Phd Program at University of Southern California