Wes Grueber is a Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The main interests of the lab are in the organization and function of the somatosensory system. Dr. Grueber is an Investigator in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and Co-Director of the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior. He is the principal investigator of two NIH R25 grants aimed at enhancing access to training in the neurosciences for undergraduates and postbaccalaureates, and of an NIH T32 training grant for training in the Neurobiology and Behavior doctoral program. Dr. Grueber is Assistant Dean of Career Development and Associate Director of Biomedical Graduate Training in the Vagelos Institute of Biomedical Research Education (VIBRE).
Education and Research Positions
Dr. Grueber received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine in 1993, where he worked with Dr. Tim Bradley on the evolution and physiology of increased salinity tolerance in Aedes mosquitoes. He earned his PhD in Zoology at the University of Washington in 2000 studying sensory system physiology and nitric oxide signaling in the moth Manduca sexta with Dr. James Truman. He performed postdoctoral research on dendrite development in Drosophila in the lab of Dr. Yuh-Nung Jan at UCSF from 2001-2005. He joined the faculty at Columbia University Medical Center in 2005.