Albert Pereda, MD, PhD

Albert Pereda, MD, PhD is a professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His laboratory is interested in the properties and dynamics of gap junction-mediated electrical transmission in the vertebrate brain. The approach involves investigating electrical transmission at identifiable auditory mixed (electrical and chemical) synapses on the fish Mauthner cells, as well mammalian brain structures. He holds an MD and a PhD from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Pereda has been involved in various educational programs throughout Latin America, participating in the IBRO neurosciences schools and the Latin American Training Program (LATP) of the Society for Neurosciences. At the Marine Biological Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts he served as faculty in the neurobiology course from 1996−2000 and 2004−07, directed the Grass Laboratory in 2012−14, and has been co-directing the neural systems & behavior course since 2020.