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 | Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior, Cellular | 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. |
| 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 |
| King, Jace | Developmental, Neurobiology of Disease, Brain and Behavior | 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. | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Zhu, Weiquan | Molecular, Neurobiology of Disease, Cellular | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences | Vascular instability in the progress of diseases specifically in the central neural system including retina |