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.