Dr. Efthimios MC Skoulakis is the Head of the Molecular Behavioral Neuroscience Research Group and a Research Professor at the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”. He received a BSc degree in biology from the University of Toledo and a Ph.D. degree in molecular genetics from Ohio State University, and completed postdoctoral training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Baylor College of Medicine. His main research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms that govern the physiology and pathology of associative learning, memory, and habituation. How their disruption leads to acute or heritable deficits in these processes and approaches towards their amelioration.