Scott Haydn Soderling

George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology

Appointments and Affiliations

  • George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology
  • Professor in Cell Biology
  • Chair, Department of Cell Biology
  • Professor of Neurobiology
  • Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
  • Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

Contact Information

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Washington, 1999
  • Oregon Health and Science University, 2005

Courses Taught

  • CELLBIO 493: Research Independent Study
  • BIOLOGY 792: Research

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Bhat, Suhaas, Kalyan Palepu, Lauren Hong, Joey Mao, Tianzheng Ye, Rema Iyer, Lin Zhao, et al. “De novo design of peptide binders to conformationally diverse targets with contrastive language modeling.” Sci Adv 11, no. 4 (January 24, 2025): eadr8638. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr8638.
  • Hossain, Kazi, Eda Erata, Lucio Schiapparelli, and Scott H. Soderling. “The Epilepsy-Aphasia Syndrome gene, Cnksr2, Plays a Critical Role in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Mediating Vocal Communication.” ENeuro 12, no. 1 (December 18, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0532-24.2024.
  • Gao, Yudong, Daichi Shonai, Matthew Trn, Jieqing Zhao, Erik J. Soderblom, S Alexandra Garcia-Moreno, Charles A. Gersbach, et al. “Proximity analysis of native proteomes reveals phenotypic modifiers in a mouse model of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.” Nat Commun 15, no. 1 (August 9, 2024): 6801. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51037-x.
  • Kim, Jaebin, Edwin Bustamante, Peter Sotonyi, Nicholas Maxwell, Pooja Parameswaran, Julie K. Kent, William C. Wetsel, Erik J. Soderblom, Bence Rácz, and Scott H. Soderling. “Presynaptic Rac1 in the hippocampus selectively regulates working memory.” Elife 13 (July 24, 2024). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97289.
  • Ulloa Severino, Francesco Paolo, Oluwadamilola O. Lawal, Kristina Sakers, Shiyi Wang, Namsoo Kim, Alexander David Friedman, Sarah Anne Johnson, et al. “Training-induced circuit-specific excitatory synaptogenesis in mice is required for effort control.” Nat Commun 14, no. 1 (September 8, 2023): 5522. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41078-z.