Postdoctoral Fellow

Frank Yeh received his BA in Biology with a Concentration in Neuroscience at CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College (2017). Following his neuroscience passions, he pursued his PhD at the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin (2023). Under the tutelage of Dr. Richard Aldrich and Dr. Eric Senning, Frank studied how ion channels integrate stimuli information to perform a functional output. Notably, he improved an existing theory of thermoTRP temperature-gating mechanisms, compared sequence and structural alignments of many voltage-gated-like channels to reveal unexplored amino acids, and recorded single ion channel electrophysiology experiments from calcium- and voltage-sensitive BK channels. 

Frank joined the Indzhykulian laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow to further develop his electrophysiology expertise while expanding his understanding of biological input–output systems in the inner ear. His current research focuses on how perturbations of PCDH15 and CDH23 influence mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) channel gating. In 2024, Frank was awarded an NIH NIDCD F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship supporting his work on the biophysical role of tip-link proteins in MET function.

As part of his advanced training, Frank attended the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Biology of the Inner Ear course in 2024 and the Computational Biophysics Workshop in 2025, strengthening his experimental and computational approaches to studying mechanotransduction.

Contact information

fyeh [at] meei.harvard.edu