David Prober, PhD

David Prober is an assistant professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology. He received his BS from the University of Manitoba and his PhD from the University of Washington. He served as a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Skirball Institute and Harvard University, and received an NIH K99/R00 award. In 2010, he was named a Milton E. Cassel Scholar by the Rita Allen Foundation, and his lab’s research has also been recognized by awards from the Mallinckrodt Foundation and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Prober’s lab studies genetic and neurological mechanisms that regulate sleep and circadian rhythms using zebrafish as a model system.