Brandon Hughes
Postdoctoral Fellow at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Hughes is a multidisciplinary neuroscience researcher and postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai with over nine years of experience probing epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms that shape neuronal activity and behavior. Working in Eric Nestler’s lab, he combines single-cell sequencing and molecular neuroscience to tackle disorders from addiction and depression to Alzheimer’s, and his work appears in high-impact journals including Neuron and eLife. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (MUSC) and brings a strong track record of funded fellowships (NRSA F31, NIDA T32), teaching, and program leadership in academic outreach and diversity initiatives. An R enthusiast, Brandon also advocates for improved statistical practices through modern modeling—an asset that underpins his rigorous, data-driven experimental approach. Notably, he contributes to a multi-institutional effort developing protein-binding inhibitors aimed at alleviating age-related learning deficits, bridging basic discovery with translational potential.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology at University of South CarolinaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Sciences - Neuroscience, 3.9, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Sciences - Neuroscience, 3.9 at Medical University of South CarolinaMaster of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology, 3.9, Master of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology, 3.9 at Claflin University
Spanish
Github Skills (69)
photography9
image-viewer9
darktable9
colorspace9
r-package9
stan8
tidy8
statistics8
spss8
r8
r-language8
modeling8
tidymodels8
bayesian8
wxwidgets8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
abnormally-distributed/rsfcNet
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 79 commits, 41 pushes in 1 year 1 month
abnormally-distributed/cvreg
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:170 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
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