Devanand Manoli, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Residency School of Medicine - Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco

Grants and Projects

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• Understanding the neural basis of social attachment, NIH, 2020-2025
• Genetic models for social attachment deficits in psychiatric illness, NIH, 2016-2021

Publications (43)

Top publication keywords:
Drosophila melanogasterHealthy AgingCuesGrasslandSocial BehaviorReceptors, OxytocinDrosophila ProteinsSex CharacteristicsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalArvicolinaeNucleus AccumbensPair BondNervous System Physiological PhenomenaCourtshipSexual Behavior, Animal

• 10.5 Genetic Regulation of Social Attachment Behaviors in ASD.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2025 Devanand Manoli
• FROM THE BENCH TO BEDSIDE: UNDERSTANDING THE PATHOGENESIS OF ASD.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2025 Devanand Manoli, Ellen J. Hoffman, Matthew State
• Identity-stable multi-animal tracking using bidirectional segmentation with object-level memory.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Wang S, Quine K, Jordan A, Dasari S, Manoli DS, Kirst C
• Oxytocin receptors mediate social selectivity in prairie vole peer relationships.
  Current biology : CB 2025 Black AM, Komatsu N, Zhao J, Taskey SR, Serrano NS, Sharma R, Manoli DS, Landry MP, Beery AK
• Oxytocin receptor controls promiscuity and development in prairie voles.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Sharma R, Berendzen KM, Everitt A, Wang B, Williams G, Wang S, Quine K, Larios RD, Long KLP, Hoglen N, Sulaman BA, Heath MC, Sherman M, Klinkel R, Cai A, Galo D, Caamal LC, Goodwin NL, Beery A, Bales …

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• FROM THE BENCH TO THE BEDSIDE: EMERGING MECHANISMS IN ASD.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024 Devanand S. Manoli, Ellen J. Hoffman, Matthew State
• Oxytocin receptor function regulates neural signatures of pair bonding and fidelity in the nucleus accumbens.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Long KLP, Hoglen NEG, Keip AJ, Klinkel RM, See DL, Maa J, Wong JC, Sherman M, Manoli DS
• 49.5 Genetic Models for Social Attachment Deficits in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Devanand S. Manoli
• From Bench to Bedside: Neural, Molecular, and Genetic Mechanisms Contributing to ASD.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023 Ellen J. Hoffman, Devanand S. Manoli, Matthew State
• Attachment across the lifespan: Examining the intersection of pair bonding neurobiology and healthy aging.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2023 Berendzen KM, Bales KL, Manoli DS
• The Neurobiology of Love: Prairie voles are providing surprising new insights into how social bonds form.
  Scientific American 2023 Manoli D, Phelps S, Donaldson Z
• Oxytocin receptor is not required for social attachment in prairie voles.
  Neuron 2023 Berendzen KM, Sharma R, Mandujano MA, Wei Y, Rogers FD, Simmons TC, Seelke AMH, Bond JM, Larios R, Goodwin NL, Sherman M, Parthasarthy S, Espineda I, Knoedler JR, Beery A, Bales KL, Shah NM, Manoli DS
• Rethinking the Architecture of Attachment: New Insights into the Role for Oxytocin Signaling.
  Affective science 2022 Berendzen KM, Manoli DS
• Cupid's quiver: Integrating sensory cues in rodent mating systems.
  Frontiers in neural circuits 2022 Hoglen NEG, Manoli DS
• From mating to mama bear: Distinct VMHvl cell types drive female reproductive state-dependent behavior.
  Neuron 2022 Wang S, Long KLP, Manoli DS
• 24.5 GENETIC REGULATION OF SOCIAL ATTACHMENT BEHAVIORS.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2021 Devanand Manoli
• FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE: INVESTIGATING BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF SEX DIFFERENCES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2021 Ellen J. Hoffman, Devanand Manoli, Matthew State
• Genetic Loss of Oxytocin Receptor Signaling Sex-Specifically Affects the Dynamics of Pair Bond Formation and Promiscuity in Prairie Voles.
  Biological Psychiatry 2021 Kristen Berendzen, Ruchira Sharma, Amanda Everitt, Rose Larios, Gina Williams, Shuyu Wang, Kim Long, Jeremy Willsey, Devanand Manoli
• Autism Spectrum Disorder Genetics and the Search for Pathological Mechanisms.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2021 Manoli DS, State MW
• Blueprints for Bonding? New Genetic Tools to Parse the Neural Basis of Pair Bonding in Prairie Voles.
  Neuroscience 2020 Donaldson ZR, Manoli DS
• BRIDGING THE GAP FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE IN CHILDHOOD NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2020 Ellen J. Hoffman, Devanand Manoli, Matthew State
• Cannabinoid receptor Type 1 densities reflect social organization in Microtus.
  The Journal of comparative neurology 2020 Simmons TC, Freeman SM, Lackey NS, Dreyer BK, Manoli DS, Bales KL
• 42.3 ANIMAL MODELS OF SOCIAL ATTACHMENT DEFICITS IN ASD.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2019 Devanand Manoli
• FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE: MOLECULAR AND GENETIC MECHANISMS IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2019 Devanand Manoli, Ellen J. Hoffman, Matthew State
• Sex and the Single Fly: A Perspective on the Career of Bruce S. Baker.
  Genetics 2019 Andrew DJ, Chen EH, Manoli DS, Ryner LC, Arbeitman MN
• From Bench to Bedside: Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2018 Ellen J. Hoffman, Devanand Manoli, Matthew State
• Gene regulatory mechanisms underlying sex differences in brain development and psychiatric disease.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2018 Manoli DS, Tollkuhn J
• 18.3 Genetic Models for Social Attachment Deficits in Mental Illness.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2017 Devanand Manoli
• 20.4 GENETIC MODELS FOR SOCIAL ATTACHMENT DEFICITS IN MENTAL ILLNESS.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2016 Devanand Manoli
• Spontaneous emergence of overgrown molar teeth in a colony of Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
  International journal of oral science 2015 Jheon AH, Prochazkova M, Sherman M, Manoli DS, Shah NM, Carbone L, Klein O
• Neural pathways for the detection and discrimination of conspecific song in D. melanogaster.
  Current biology : CB 2014 Vaughan AG, Zhou C, Manoli DS, Baker BS
• Genetic and neural mechanisms that inhibit Drosophila from mating with other species.
  Cell 2013 Fan P, Manoli DS, Ahmed OM, Chen Y, Agarwal N, Kwong S, Cai AG, Neitz J, Renslo A, Baker BS, Shah NM
• Neural control of sexually dimorphic behaviors.
  Current opinion in neurobiology 2013 Manoli DS, Fan P, Fraser EJ, Shah NM
• Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from the prairie vole.
  PloS one 2012 Manoli DS, Subramanyam D, Carey C, Sudin E, Van Westerhuyzen JA, Bales KL, Blelloch R, Shah NM
• Functional dissection of the neural substrates for sexual behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster.
  Genetics 2011 Meissner GW, Manoli DS, Chavez JF, Knapp JM, Lin TL, Stevens RJ, Mellert DJ, Tran DH, Baker BS
• Midline crossing by gustatory receptor neuron axons is regulated by fruitless, doublesex and the Roundabout receptors.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2010 Mellert DJ, Knapp JM, Manoli DS, Meissner GW, Baker BS
• Estrogen masculinizes neural pathways and sex-specific behaviors.
  Cell 2009 Wu MV, Manoli DS, Fraser EJ, Coats JK, Tollkuhn J, Honda S, Harada N, Shah NM
• Manipulation of an innate escape response in Drosophila: photoexcitation of acj6 neurons induces the escape response.
  PloS one 2009 Zimmermann G, Wang LP, Vaughan AG, Manoli DS, Zhang F, Deisseroth K, Baker BS, Scott MP
• Blueprints for behavior: genetic specification of neural circuitry for innate behaviors.
  Trends in neurosciences 2006 Manoli DS, Meissner GW, Baker BS
• Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour.
  Nature 2005 Manoli DS, Foss M, Villella A, Taylor BJ, Hall JC, Baker BS
• Median bundle neurons coordinate behaviours during Drosophila male courtship.
  Nature 2004 Manoli DS, Baker BS
• intersex, a gene required for female sexual development in Drosophila, is expressed in both sexes and functions together with doublesex to regulate terminal differentiation.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2002 Garrett-Engele CM, Siegal ML, Manoli DS, Williams BC, Li H, Baker BS
• Calcineurin and vacuolar-type H+-ATPase modulate macrophage effector functions.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999 Conboy IM, Manoli D, Mhaiskar V, Jones PP