Genevieve Konopka is a professor and the chair of neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. She received dual B.S. degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed her Ph.D. in neurobiology at Harvard University.

Research in the Konopka lab focuses on understanding molecular pathways important for human brain evolution that are at risk in neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. Her lab uses a combination of human post-mortem and surgical brain tissue, animal models and primate comparative genomics to uncover human-specific, disease-relevant patterns of gene expression and integrated genomic signatures of neuronal activity in the human brain.