Faculty
| Name | Area of Research | Department | Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed, Ismail | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 Neuroscience | 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 Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Pediatrics | Axon pathfinding and development of basal ganglia; function of language genes in CNS development |
| Borisyuk, Alla | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Mathematics | Computational Neuroscience |
| Bosch, Justin | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Cell Signaling; Genetics; Development; Inter-organ communication; Drosophila; CRISPR; plasma proteomics |
| Brasch, Julia | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience | School of Biological Sciences | Sensory representations in the Drosophila brain |
| Chow, Clement | Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, 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 |
| 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 |
| Dennis, Emily | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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. |
| Dorval, "Chuck" Alan D. | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Biomedical Engineering | Neuropathophysioloy, Translational Neuroscience, Neuromodulation, Neuronal Semiotic |
| Douglass, Adam | Cellular Neuroscience | 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. | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | School of Dentistry | Neuropharmacology, neurochemistry and aminergic transporters |
| Frost, Nicholas | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurology | Organization of activity across distributed circuits |
| George, Jacob | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Tissue specification during zebrafish embryogenesis |
| Heys, Jim | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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. |
| Jorgensen, Erik M. | Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience | School of Biological Sciences | Mechanisms of synaptic function |
| Kanekar, Shami | Brain and Behavior | Psychiatry | Depression Page coming soon |
| Keefe, Kristen A. | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Pharmacology of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including drug abuse and addiction. Normal and pathological functions of the basal ganglia |
| King, Jace | Brain and Behavior, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Radiology | Investigating cognitive aging, structural and functional brain imaging, social determinants of health, and markers of biological and physical health, effects of CBD and THC using MRI brain scans and simultaneous EEG-fMRI, novel metrics of brain Dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease |
| Korenberg, Julie R. | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | Pediatrics | Genetics, neurobiology and multiscale imaging of neural circuitry for disorders of social behavior, animal and human models |
| Krizaj, David | Cellular Neuroscience | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Calcium regulation and synaptic communication in the vertebrate retina |
| Kwan, Kristen | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience | Human Genetics | Zebrafish, Eye Development and Morphogenesis |
| Lamb, Tracey | Neurobiology of Disease | Pathology | Malaria pathogenesis |
| Letsou, Anthea | Developmental Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Embryonic Development Neurobiology |
| Link, Nichole | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurobiology | Drosophila models of microcephaly and neurological disease |
| Luo, Thomas Zhihao | Brain and Behavior | School of Biological Sciences | How brain-wide networks of neurons work together to make decisions and select relevant sensory information |
| Mao, Qinwen | Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 Neuroscience | Neurobiology | The workings of synapses: molecular mechanisms regulating neurotransmission in C. elegans |
| McDonnell, Fiona | Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Glaucoma pathophysiology |
| McIntosh, J. Michael | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Psychiatry, School of Biological Sciences | Molecular Pharmacology of CNS receptors and ion channels |
| Mickey, Brian J. | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | Psychiatry | Neuroscience of mood disorders |
| Mills, Fergil | Brain and Behavior | Neurobiology | Understanding circuits in the brain that underlie learned and innate motivated behaviors |
| Morimoto, Sarah Shizuko | Brain and Behavior, Developmental Neuroscience | Population Health | Digital cognitive intervention development: identifying targeted, and clinically relevant cognitive deficits, underlying neural circuit dysfunction. Geriatric depression. |
| 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 Neuroscience, 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 | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 Neuroscience | Biomedical Engineering | Biophysics and neurophysiology of the inner ear |
| Renshaw, Perry | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Psychiatry | Modeling Addiction and other Neuropsychiatric Illnesses in Drosophila |
| Roy, Suva | Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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) | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurobiology | Development and function of human synapses in health and disease |
| Shepherd, Jason | Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurobiology | Synaptic plasticity, memory encoding, experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex and neurological disorders |
| Shofty, Ben | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience | 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 | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurosurgery | Human neuronal computations underlying cognition |
| Tantin, Dean | Developmental Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Pathology | The transcription co-regulator OCA-B as a driver of MS pathogenesis and potential pharmaceutical drug target; gut/neuro axis study; neuroinflammation and autoimmune disease |
| Taylor, Norman | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | Anesthesiology | Chronic and neuropathic pain |
| Venero-Galanternik, Marina | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Human Genetics | Mechanisms regulating Meningeal Development |
| Vetter, Monica | Developmental Neuroscience, 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 | Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience | 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 | Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 Neuroscience | 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. | Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Electrophysiological mechanisms of action of novel anticonvulsant drugs |
| Wilde, Elisabeth A. | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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. | Cellular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Pathogenetic mechanisms of retinal degeneration and cell biology of photoreceptors |
| Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah | Brain and Behavior, Neurobiology of Disease | 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 |
| Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah | Brain and Behavior, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Psychiatry | Application of MR imaging methods to understand emotional processing and cognitive changes associated with behavioral disorders |
| Zelikowsky, Moriel | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurobiology | Neural circuits underlying psychogenic stress |
| Zhang, Jie | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Anesthesiology | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of pain and fatigue |
| Zhu, Weiquan | Cellular Neuroscience, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Vascular instability in the progress of diseases specifically in the central neural system including retina |
| Zimmerman, Christopher | Brain and Behavior, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease | Neurobiology | Using systems and computational neuroscience, machine learning, physiology, genomics, and biochemistry; discovering how sensory signals from the internal organs are represented in the brain and how these interoceptive representations contribute to cognitive processes like reward, motivation, learning, and memory. |