Dr. Adrian Rothenfluh is an
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Dr. Rothenfluh received his M.Sc. at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1993
and his Ph.D. at the Rockefeller University in 1999. He worked in the lab of
Walter Gehring, investigating the specificity of homeodomain-DNA interaction.
For his Ph.D., he joined the lab of Michael Young, at Rockefeller Univ. There,
he studied the molecular mechanisms of Drosophila circadian rhythms. For his
postdoctoral training, he joined the lab of Ulrike Heberlein at UCSF, where he
started investigating the genes and molecular mechanisms involved in Drosophila
alcohol responses. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas for nine years,
before joining the U of U in the fall of 2016. Dr. Rothenfluh’s research focuses on the
genetics of psychiatric disorders, especially addiction. His lab uses
Drosophila to model various neuropsychiatric conditions and to investigate the
molecular, signaling, and neuronal mechanisms that mediate behavior. His lab has
a continued commitment to translate his findings to human studies.
