Faculty

Neeraj Lal, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

Department: Neuroscience

Graduate Group Affiliations

Contact information

Room 358,
3500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email:
Neeraj.Lal@PennMedicine.upenn.edu

Publications

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Selected Publications

Qi T, Krull C, Leung VH, Mardare V, Yang D, Lal N, Ma J, Wang S, Shen H, Zhang A, Zhao B, Heydari Seradj S, Korotkova T, Kennedy A, Ye L.: Top-down regulation of ingestive behavior fragmentation. bioRxiv Apr 2026.

Le P, Lal NK, Xu S, Mumford S, Huang M, Yang D, Mizrahi O, Hoover B, Yee B, Mei Y, Rothamel K, Her HL, Blue SM, Shneider NA, Yeo GW.: KIF5A binds RNA to orchestrate synaptic mRNA localization and stress granules in ALS. bioRxiv Nov 2025.

Attarpour A, Osmann J, Rinaldi A, Qi T, Lal N, Patel S, Rozak M, Yu F, Cho N, Squair J, McLaurin J, Raffiee M, Deisseroth K, Courtine G, Ye L, Stefanovic B, Goubran M.: A deep learning pipeline for three-dimensional brain-wide mapping of local neuronal ensembles in teravoxel light-sheet microscopy. Nat Methods 2025.

Yang D, Wang Y, Qi T, Zhang X, Shen L, Ma J, Pang Z, Lal NK, McClatchy DB, Seradj SH, Leung VH, Wang K, Xie Y, Polli FS, Maximov A, Gonzalez OC, de Lecea L, Cline HT, Augustine V, Yates JR 3rd, Ye L.: Phosphorylation of pyruvate dehydrogenase inversely associates with neuronal activity. Neuron 112: 959-971, Mar 2024.

Lal NK, Le P, Aggarwal S, Zhang A, Wang K, Qi T, Pang Z, Yang D, Nudell V, Yeo GW, Banks AS, Ye L.: Xiphoid nucleus of the midline thalamus controls cold-induced food seeking. Nature Mar 2023.

Pang Z, Schafroth MA, Ogasawara D, Wang Y, Nudell V, Lal NK, Yang D, Wang K, Herbst DM, Ha J, Guijas C, Blankman JL, Cravatt BF, Ye L.: In situ identification of cellular drug targets in mammalian tissue. Cell 185: 1793-1805, May 2022.

Nudell V, Wang Y, Pang Z, Lal NK, Huang M, Shaabani N, Kanim W, Teijaro J, Maximov A, Ye L.: HYBRiD: hydrogel-reinforced DISCO for clearing mammalian bodies. Nat Methods 2022.

Lal NK, Thanasuwat B, Huang PJ, Cavanaugh KA, Carter A, Michelmore RW, Dinesh-Kumar SP.: Phytopathogen Effectors Use Multiple Mechanisms to Manipulate Plant Autophagy. Cell Host Microbe 28: 558-571, Oct 2020.

Lee D, Lal NK, Lin ZD, Ma S, Liu J, Castro B, Toruño T, Dinesh-Kumar SP, Coaker G.: Regulation of reactive oxygen species during plant immunity through phosphorylation and ubiquitination of RBOHD. Nat Commun 11: 1838, Apr 2020.

Lal NK, Thanasuwat B, Chan B, Dinesh-Kumar SP.: Pathogens manipulate host autophagy through injected effector proteins. Autophagy 2020.