Dr. Kevin T. Beier

The Beier Lab is identifying how neural circuits adapt—or fail—in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, pointing to circuit-level biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Dr. Kevin Beier is an Assistant Professor of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of California, Irvine, where he studies how experience shapes neural circuit dynamics in both health and disease. His lab uses advanced techniques—including optogenetics, in vivo calcium imaging, and viral-genetic circuit tracing—to investigate how brain circuits adapt or malfunction in conditions like addiction, autism, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Beier earned his Ph.D. from Harvard, developing viral tools for circuit mapping, and completed postdoctoral research at Stanford with Drs. Robert Malenka and Liqun Luo. His work aims to identify circuit-level biomarkers and therapeutic targets for neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.