Yalda Moayedi
Biography
Yalda Moayedi is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on somatosensory neurons that innervate the oral cavity and upper airway, and how they contribute to oral functions including flavor perception, food choice, feeding mechanics, and airway defense. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine.
Sample Works
- SARS-CoV-2 Papain-Like Protease Activates Nociceptors to Drive Sneeze and Pain (2024) Paper
- The Cellular Basis of Mechanosensation in Mammalian Tongue (2023) Paper
- TRPV4 Activation in Schwann Cells Mediates Mechanically Induced Pain of Oral Cancer (2025) Paper
- Somatosensory Innervation of Healthy Human Oral Tissues (2021) Paper
Roundtable Appearances
March 9, 2024 · ▶ Video
Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy
The roundtable examines touch as fundamental to sensation and sentience. It explores how sentience itself derives from feeling, and investigates the physical and neurological...
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Andrea Gadberry, Pascal Massie, Yalda Moayedi, Sushma Subramanian