Berrak Ugur

Role: Mentorship Committee Member

Biography:

Berrak is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Pietro De Camilli’s Lab in the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine. She is working on characterizing how a lipid transporter protein is regulating intracellular neuronal communication. Berrak received her Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in Hugo J. Bellen’s Lab. In the Bellen lab, she studied the role of a mitochondrial metabolite in synaptic transmission. Her long-term research interest is understanding how metabolism integrates into the neuronal function.