Faculty
| Name | Area of Research | Department | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed, Ismail | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Neurobiology | Neuropeptides; Oxytocin; Vasopressin; Neuroplasticity; Neuromodulation; Maternal Behavior; Maternal Physiology; Social Behavior; Chemical Biology; Neurotechnology; Tool Development; Neuropsychiatric Disorders |
| Angelucci, Alessandra | Brain and Behavior | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Structure and function of the visual cerebral cortex |
| Balagurunathan, Kuberan (Kuby) | Molecular | Medicinal Chemistry | Determining biological roles of heparan sulfate (HS) at the molecular level in the CNS. Designing new carbohydrate-based drugs to tackle CNS diseases |
| Bernstein, Paul S. | Neurobiology of Disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Biochemistry and biophysics of nutritional interventions against ocular disease; carotenoid and omega-3 fatty acid metabolism and function in the human retina; genetics of macular and retina dystrophies and degenerations |
| Bonkowsky, Joshua | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease | Pediatrics | Axon pathfinding and development of basal ganglia; function of language genes in CNS development |
| Borisyuk, Alla | Mathematics | Computational Neuroscience | |
| Bosch, Justin | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Human Genetics | Cell Signaling; Genetics; Development; Inter-organ communication; Drosophila; CRISPR; plasma proteomics |
| Brasch, Julia | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Biochemistry | Synaptic Organization, Cell-Cell Adhesion, Structural Biology, Electron Cryo-tomography, cryo-EM, X-ray Crystallography, Biophysics |
| Brennan, K.C. | Neurobiology of Disease | Neurology | Optical and electrophysiological investigation of the basic mechanisms of migraine |
| Capecchi, Mario R. | Brain and Behavior | School of Biological Sciences, Human Genetics | Gene manipulation in mammalian and other eukaryotic cells |
| Caron, Sophie | Developmental, Molecular, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | School of Biological Sciences | Sensory representations in the Drosophila brain |
| Chow, Clement | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Genetic variation, Genomics, ER stress, Disease modifiers |
| Coon, Hilary | Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Genetics of autism, suicide risk, nicotine dependence, and obesity; application of statistical methods to genetic data |
| Creem-Regehr, Sarah | Brain and Behavior | Psychology | Cognitive neuroscience; visual perception; visual-motor control; spatial cognition |
| Dalrymple, Ashley | Neurobiology of Disease | Biomedical Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabi | Spinal cord neuromodulation, spinal reflexes, spinal plasticity after neural injury and electrical stimulation, motor control |
| Davis, Zachary W. | Neurobiology of Disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Mechanisms underlying sensory perception Identifying diagnostic biomarkers and intervention targets for impairments of the visual system |
| Deans, Michael | Developmental, Molecular, Cellular | Surgery (Division of Otolaryngology) | Mechanisms of sensory system development and cellular morphogenesis |
| Dennis, Emily | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Neurology | Neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury |
| DePaula-Silva, Ana Beatriz | Neurobiology of Disease | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Viral-host interactions in association with the development of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases, focusing mechanistically on the involvement of CNS-infiltrating immune cells to the development of epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. |
| Dorsky, Richard | Developmental, Molecular | Neurobiology | Signaling pathways in zebrafish neural cell fate determination |
| Dorval, "Chuck" Alan D. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Biomedical Engineering | Neuropathophysioloy, Translational Neuroscience, Neuromodulation, Neuronal Semiotic |
| Douglass, Adam | Cellular | Neurobiology | Functional anatomy of neuromodulatory circuits; learning and memory in the larval zebrafish; imaging technique development |
| Drew, Trafton | Brain and Behavior | Psychology | Attention, working memory, medical image perception, EEG, ERPs, Eye-tracking |
| Fleckenstein, Annette E. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | School of Dentistry | Neuropharmacology, neurochemistry and aminergic transporters |
| Frost, Nicholas | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Neurology | Organization of activity across distributed circuits |
| George, Jacob | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Our research seeks to augment biological neural networks with artificial neural networks and bionic devices to treat neurological disorders and to further our understanding of neural processing |
| Grunwald, David J. | Developmental, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Tissue specification during zebrafish embryogenesis |
| Heys, Jim | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Neurobiology | Uncovering the synaptic, cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying learning and memory |
| Inman, Cory | Brain and Behavior | Psychology | Cognitive neuroscience of emotion and memory in laboratory and real-world environments using intracranial EEG, deep brain stimulation, eye tracking, virtual reality, and augmented reality in humans |
| Jennings, Skyler | Brain and Behavior | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Understanding how the auditory system adapts to a changing acoustic environment in order to facilitate speech understanding in a noisy background. |
| Jones, Bryan | Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Retinal circuitry/connectomics and neural plasticity in retinal disease |
| Jorgensen, Erik M. | Molecular, Cellular | School of Biological Sciences | Mechanisms of synaptic function |
| Keefe, Kristen A. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Pharmacology of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including drug abuse and addiction. Normal and pathological functions of the basal ganglia |
| Korenberg, Julie R. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Pediatrics | Genetics, neurobiology and multiscale imaging of neural circuitry for disorders of social behavior, animal and human models |
| Krizaj, David | Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Calcium regulation and synaptic communication in the vertebrate retina |
| Kubanek, Jan | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Biomedical Engineering | Remote Neural Interfacing |
| Kwan, Kristen | Developmental, Molecular, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Human Genetics | Zebrafish, Eye Development and Morphogenesis |
| Lamb, Tracey | Neurobiology of Disease | Pathology | Malaria pathogenesis |
| Langenecker, Scott A. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Neuroscience of mood disorders across the life span: Multifaceted Explorations of the Neurobiology of Depressive Disorders (MEND2) |
| Letsou, Anthea | Developmental, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Embryonic Development Neurobiology |
| Link, Nichole | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Neurobiology | Drosophila models of microcephaly and neurological disease |
| Mao, Qinwen | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Pathology | Diagnosis and research of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias with a focus on biofluid biomarker discovery, and targeted therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. The research of the neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury with a focus on elucidating novel molecular pathways involved in neuroinflammation |
| Maricq, Andres Villu | Molecular | Neurobiology | The workings of synapses: molecular mechanisms regulating neurotransmission in C. elegans |
| McDonnell, Fiona | Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Glaucoma pathophysiology |
| McIntosh, J. Michael | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Psychiatry, School of Biological Sciences | Molecular Pharmacology of CNS receptors and ion channels |
| Mickey, Brian J. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Neuroscience of mood disorders |
| Mills, Fergil | Brain and Behavior | Neurobiology | Understanding circuits in the brain that underlie learned and innate motivated behaviors |
| Nategh, Neda | Brain and Behavior | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Computational understanding of the brain's dynamic vision functions, neuro-inspired artificial vision |
| Noudoost, Behrad | Brain and Behavior | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Neuronal basis and neuromodulatory pathways of visual attention |
| Olivera, Baldomero M. | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease | School of Biological Sciences | Ion channels, membrane receptors and sensory transduction |
| Osterhout, Jessica | Brain and Behavior | Neurobiology | The molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms driving sickness symptoms and behaviors |
| Park, Sungjin | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Neurobiology | Signal transduction mechanism in the nervous system focusing on the role of GPI-anchored proteins and their regulatory enzymes on neuron-glia communication |
| Payne, Brennan | Brain and Behavior | Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience; Aging; Language; Memory; Event-Related Brain Potentials; EEG; Eye-Movement Control |
| Pettine, Warren | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Investigation on how attention shapes decision making, and how that process can be altered in conditions such as autism, depression or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. |
| Pulst, Stefan M. | Neurobiology of Disease | Neurology | Inherited diseases of the nervous system with an emphasis on spinocerebellar ataxias and Parkinson's disease |
| Rabbitt, Richard D. | Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Biomedical Engineering | Biophysics and neurophysiology of the inner ear |
| Renshaw, Perry | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | In vivo neurochemical changes associated with mood and drug abuse disorders; natural products as novel treatments |
| Rose, Gary | Brain and Behavior | School of Biological Sciences | Information processing in the auditory and electrosensory systems |
| Rothenfluh, Adrian | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Psychiatry | Modeling Addiction and other Neuropsychiatric Illnesses in Drosophila |
| Roy, Suva | Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Adaptive computations in the retina; Visual signaling between the retina and the brain |
| Scoles, Daniel | Neurobiology of Disease | Neurology | Disease mechanisms and therapeutic development for spinocerebellar ataxias, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease. |
| Shcheglovitov, Oleksandr (Alex) | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Neurobiology | Development and function of human synapses in health and disease |
| Shepherd, Jason | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Neurobiology | Synaptic plasticity, memory encoding, experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex and neurological disorders |
| Shofty, Ben | Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Neurosurgery | Investigation of high-order cognition and network dependent functions such as creativity and mind wondering, as well as novel interventions for OCD, depression and PTSD. |
| Smith, Elliot | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Neurosurgery | Human neuronal computations underlying cognition |
| Taylor, Norman | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Anesthesiology | Chronic and neuropathic pain |
| Tian, Ning | Developmental, Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Development of retinal synaptic circuitry |
| Venero-Galanternik, Marina | Developmental, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Human Genetics | Mechanisms regulating Meningeal Development |
| Vetter, Monica | Developmental, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurobiology | Molecular pathways regulating the genesis and degeneration of neurons in the vertebrate nervous system |
| Vickers, Neil | Brain and Behavior | School of Biological Sciences | Neuroethology of olfaction |
| Vierra, Nicholas | Molecular, Cellular | School of Biological Sciences | Understanding of how neurons convert electrical signals into specific biochemical responses remains limited; Generating the knowledge and tools needed for understanding the molecular mechanisms that couple electrical signals to fundamental neuronal processes |
| Vinberg, Frans | Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Physiology and pathophysiology in the mammalian/primate retina. Calcium regulation and feedback mechanisms in photoreceptor and retinal pigment epithelium cells. |
| Wachowiak, Matt | Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Neurobiology | Neural coding and circuit mechanisms underlying sensory processing and perception |
| West, Peter J. | Neurobiology of Disease | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Neuropharmacology of synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory in epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, and Down syndrome |
| Wilcox, Karen S. | Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Electrophysiological mechanisms of action of novel anticonvulsant drugs |
| Wilde, Elisabeth A. | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Neurology | Neuroimaging to enhance diagnosis and prognosis, monitor recovery and neurodegeneration, evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic intervention, and elucidate aspects of neuroplasticity in traumatic brain injury |
| Williams, Megan E. | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Neurobiology | Molecular mechanisms that regulate synapse formation and specificity of neural circuits |
| Yamaguchi, Ayako | Brain and Behavior | School of Biological Sciences | Neural Mechanisms Underlying Sexually Distinct Behavior |
| Yang, Jun | Developmental, Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Pathogenetic mechanisms of retinal degeneration and cell biology of photoreceptors |
| Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah | Developmental, Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Application of MR imaging methods to understand emotional processing and cognitive changes associated with behavioral disorders |
| Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Investigation on how attention shapes decision making, and how that process can be altered in conditions such as autism, depression or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |
| Zelikowsky, Moriel | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Neurobiology | Neural circuits underlying psychogenic stress |
| Zhang, Jie | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | Anesthesiology | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of pain and fatigue |