Dr. Sathya Puthanveettil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute. Research in his laboratory centers on the molecular and cellular basis of long-term memory storage and its disorders. His laboratory explores these questions using an integrated approach that combines several high throughput techniques with electrophysiology,biochemistry and imaging. He uses Aplysia and mice as models to address these questions at both the cellular and systems level. Dr.Puthanveettil received his bachelor’ s degree in agriculture from Kerala Agricultural University in India and his Ph.D.from Washington State University.He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel winner, Dr.Eric Kandel, at Columbia University Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute prior to joining Scripps.