Wes Grueber

Principal Investigator

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, Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, Director of the Summer Program for Undergraduate Rising Stars (SPURS), Co-Director of Columbia Access for Doctoral REadiness (CADRE) postbaccalaureate program, and on the Executive Advisory Committee of the MD-PhD program. 

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.