Dr. Jonathan Kasdin

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Jonathan Kasdin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Crickmore Lab at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He completed his PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, where he studied the neural basis of skill acquisition using songbird vocal learning as a model. His doctoral work examined how dopamine shapes trial-and-error learning during development. In a study published in Nature (2025), he provided the first direct evidence that dopamine mediates the acquisition of natural behaviors by encoding performance feedback—rising after successful song renditions and falling after errors.

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