Kevin Yackle, PhD, MD
Assistant Professor
Physiology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• NIH Director's Early Independence Award, National Institutes of Health, 2016-2021
• Sandler Faculty Fellow, University of California San Francisco, 2016-2021
• Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 2016

Education & Training

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• Ph.D. Biochemistry Stanford University 2016
• M.D. School of Medicine Stanford University 2016
• B.S. Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics University of California Los Angeles 2007

Websites

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• Lab Website (yacklelab.ucsf.edu)

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
CryingEmotionsAnalgesics, OpioidArousalRespiratory InsufficiencyLocus CoeruleusNeurokinin BPlethysmographyBrain StemPlethysmography, Whole BodyMorphinebeta-Arrestin 2CommunicationNeuronsRespiration

• The breath shape controls intonation of mouse vocalizations.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 MacDonald A, Yackle K
• Transformation of Our Understanding of Breathing Control by Molecular Tools.
  Annual review of physiology 2022 Yackle K
• A novel reticular node in the brainstem synchronizes neonatal mouse crying with breathing.
  Neuron 2022 Wei XP, Collie M, Dempsey B, Fortin G, Yackle K
• ß-arrestin 2 germline knockout does not attenuate opioid respiratory depression.
  eLife 2021 Bachmutsky I, Wei XP, Durand A, Yackle K
• Opioids depress breathing through two small brainstem sites.
  eLife 2020 Bachmutsky I, Wei XP, Kish E, Yackle K
• Breathing control center neurons that promote arousal in mice.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2017 Yackle K, Schwarz LA, Kam K, Sorokin JM, Huguenard JR, Feldman JL, Luo L, Krasnow MA
• Sighing.
  Current biology : CB 2017 Li P, Yackle K
• The peptidergic control circuit for sighing.
  Nature 2016 Li P, Janczewski WA, Yackle K, Kam K, Pagliardini S, Krasnow MA, Feldman JL