Scholarship and Biography

Piali Sengupta is a full Professor in the Department of Biology at Brandeis. Her work is funded by the NSF and NIH. Her lab's work focuses on understanding how animals sense environmental cues such as chemicals and temperature, and how this information is then translated into changes in development and behavior. Identifying the genes, neurons and circuits that underlie sensory transduction provides information about how organisms, including humans, interact with their environment, and how defects in the ability to process sensory signals lead to neurological and developmental disorders.

Honors

summa cum laude
Bryn Mawr College (United States, Bryn Mawr) - BMC, 1985
Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship
American Cancer Society (United States, Atlanta) - ACS, 1992-1994
Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship
American Cancer Society (United States, Atlanta) - ACS, 1994-1995
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (United States, New York), 1996
Searle Scholars Award
Searle Scholars Program, 1996
Whitehall Award
Whitehall Foundation (United States, Palm Beach), 1997-2000
David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
David and Lucile Packard Foundation (United States, Los Altos), 1997-2002
MERIT Award
National Institutes of Health (United States, Bethesda) - NIH, 2010
Elected Treasurer
Genetics Society of America (United States, Bethesda) - GSA, 2017-2019
Elected Fellow
American Association For The Advancement of Science (United States, Washington D.C.) - AAAS, 2020
Harold and Bernice Davis Chair
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2020

Organizational Affiliations

Harold and Bernice Davis Professor in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease, Department of Biology, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Neuroscience Program, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D.
Bryn Mawr College
B.A.