Gergely Turi
@ UT Southwestern

About

Welcome to Gergely Turi's Personal Website. About Gergely.

News

October, 2025
I rejoined forces with Attila Losonczy at UT Southwestern as an Assistant Professor in his newly established Program in Memory Longevity. Looking forward to this exciting opportunity and new chapter in my scientific career and personal life. Novak Chen also joins the new lab. See you in Dallas!

September, 2025
Our paper entitled Psilocybin induces sex- and context-specific recruitment of the stress axis is accepted for publication in Current Biology. Congrats for the team! 🍄

July, 2025
Yuecheng Shi is transitioning to the Canetta lab. Good luck Yuecheng, we will miss you!

May, 2025
Congrats for Roujon Li for securing a place in the PhD program at University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign! 🎉
Welcome back Anna for the summer.

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉
January, 2025
Welcome Novak in the lab as a full time Research Assistant!
The lab's first psilocybin work is uploaded to BioRxiv as a preprint! 🍄

October, 2024
The Peng and Turi labs' joint paper about infraslow oscillations in the dentate gyrus can be downloaded from eLife's website.

June, 2024
Welcome to our new students: Ruojun, Novak and Matt!

May, 2024
Congrats to Emma for graduating. Welcome Austin and Anna!

March, 2024
Congrats to Emma for getting the third best score on her Physics exam! We are proud of you! 😄
Also congrats to Hayley for getting a summer internship at Feinstein Institute!
Congrats to Carla for getting into the AUPO menthorship program!🎉

December, 2023
Hayley has ended her tenure in the lab. Good luck with your medschool application!

Septeber, 2023
Welcome back to our returning students: Stephanie, Emma, and Hayley. We'd also like to extend a warm welcome to Colin, who has rejoined us after a few years of hiatus.

August, 2023
Welcome Yuecheng Shi, our new Research Assistant!

July, 2023
Congrats for Emma and Stephanie for graduating from SRI and SURF!

June, 2023
Big Congrtas to Carla for getting into Cornell Med!
Congrats to Stephanie and Emma for getting into Columbia's SURF and Barnard's SRI programs!

May, 2023
Preprint Alert! We deposited a preprint about our latest finding related to sleep, infraslow osciallation, serotonin dynamics and calcium acivity in the dentate gyrus. See the details here and a Twitter thread here.

HallPass is now available on JOVE!

December, 2022
HallPass, our open source, Raspberry Pi-based virtual reality system for mice is apporved for publication. Congrats for the team!

Current Trainees


Anna Treat Novak Chen

Tools and methods

PIC ProLab

Opportunities

Motivated individuals with strong background in data science/math/statistics or background in electrical engineering or design should directly contact Gergely Turi.

Contact

Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute | 6121 Harry Hines Blvd | Office: NS 4.216 | Dallas | TX, 75390 |

gergely.turi@utsouthwestern.edu