Neuroscience Faculty
Addy, Nii
Research Interests:Neurobiology of addiction; In vivo electrochemistry; Behavioral pharmacology; Systems neuroscience; Neurotransmission; Signal transduction
Alreja, Meenakshi
Research Interests:Prefrontal cortex; Interneurons; Nicotine; Acetylcholine; Electrophysiology; GABA; glutamate; Hypocretin; MCH; Learning and Memory; Neurotransmitters; Signal Transduction; GnRH; Puberty; Fertility; HPG axis; Kisspeptin
Arnsten, Amy
Research Interests:Molecular influences on higher cognitive function
Bagriantsev, Slav
Research Interests:Sensory physiology; Biophysics; Biochemistry; Neuroscience; Electrophysiology; Polymodal ion channels; Temperature-sensitive ion channels; Mechanosensitive ion channels; Two-pore potassium channels; Ion channel pharmacology
Biederer, Thomas
Research Interests:Biochemistry of membrane proteins; molecular and cellular neuroscience; synapse formation
Blumberg, Hilary
Research Interests:Adolescence; Bipolar Disorder; Brain; Depression; Development; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Emotion; Endophenotype; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mania; Manic Depressive Disorder; Neuropsychiatry; Neuroscience; Women
Blumenfeld, Hal
Research Interests:Impaired consciousness in epilepsy; Epilepsy neuroimaging and electrophysiology
Bordey, Angelique
Research Interests:Neurogenesis; stem cells; mTOR; Neural stem cell; Cognitive functions; autism
Cardin, Jessica
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Cortex; Inhibitory interneuron; Oscillation; Electrophysiology; Vision; Schizophrenia; Epilepsy; Intracellular; Network
Carlson, John
Research Interests:Drosophila, olfaction, taste, Anopheles, mosquito
Chandra, Sreeganga
Research Interests:Presynaptic Biology; Synapse Maintenance; Parkinson's Disease; Neurodegeneration
Chun, Marvin
Research Interests:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); attention; memory; decision making; executive control; perception
Clark, Damon
Research Interests:visual processing; computational neuroscience; neural circuits; Drosophila; behavior; modeling
Cohen, Lawrence
Research Interests:Brain; Central Nervous System; Neurons; Vertebrate Physiology; Olfaction; Olfactory Bulb; Protein Sensors of Voltage and Calcium
Colon-Ramos, Daniel
Research Interests:Neural connectivity; Brain; Nematode C. elegans
Constable, R. Todd
Research Interests:Development of MRI techniques to provide functional information; Quantitative information and high quality pictures of anatomy; Application of new methods to answer fundamental questions in basic science and medicine
Crair, Michael
Research Interests:Neural circuit development; synapse formation; visual system development; cortex development
De Camilli, Pietro
Research Interests:Synapses; exocytosis; endocytosis; membranes; clathrin; dynamin; phosphoinositides; Lowe syndrome; BAR proteins; neurodegeneration
deLanerolle, Nihal
Research Interests:Molecular and cellular neuropathology of human seizure foci; development of animal models of human temporal lobe epilepsy; neuropathology of Traumatic brain injury
Demb, Jonathan
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Functional circuitry of the retina; Cellular basis of visual adaptation; Neural plasticity; Mechanisms of retinal disease
Diano, Sabrina
Research Interests:Metabolism Regulation
DiLeone, Ralph
Research Interests:Addictions; Animal Behavior; Ethology; Animal Nutrition; Diseases and Disorders; Drug Abuse; Eating Disorders; Etiology; Evolution; Genetic Manipulation; Natural History; Obesity; Psychiatry
Duman, Ronald
Research Interests:Depression; Antidepressants; Stress; Molecular biology; Neuropharmacology Signal transduction pathways; Gene expression; Identifying the molecular and cellular adaptations that underlie the actions of psychotropic drugs and stress
Ehrlich, Barbara
Research Interests:Intracellular calcium regulation
Forscher, Paul
Research Interests:cytoskeleton; actin filament; microtubule; protein dynamics; axon growth; axon guidance; axon regeneration; mechanotransduction; calcium; Rho GTPase
Gracheva, Elena
Research Interests:Sensory physiology, molecular adaptations, hibernation, thermoregulation, ion channels, neuroscience
Greer, Charles
Research Interests:Development; specificity of synaptic circuits; aging; cellular and molecular biology of the nervous system
Gruber, June
Research Interests:Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Bipolar Disorder; Psychophysiology; Neuroimaging
Grutzendler, Jaime
Research Interests:Two-photon microscopy; Neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's; Blood-brain barrier; Microvasculature; Synapses; Neuroinflammation; Microglia; Astrocyte; Endothelium, myelin imaging
Gunel, Murat
Research Interests:Molecular genetics and biology of brain aneurysms and cavernous malformations; molecular genetics of brain development
Hafler, David
Research Interests:Neuroimmunology; Multiple Sclerosis; Autoimmunity; Genetics; Immunobiology
Hammarlund, Marc
Research Interests:Axon regeneration and degeneration; Neuronal plasticity; Femtosecond laser surgery; C. elegans neurobiology
Higley, Michael
Research Interests:Synaptic integration; GABAergic interneurons; Inhibition; 2-photon; Electrophysiology
Horvath, Tamas
Research Interests:Neurobiology of obesity; Neuroendocrine physiology
Howe, James
Research Interests:Glutamate receptors
Johnson, Marcia
Research Interests:Cognition and cognitive neuroscience. Component processes of memory subsystems; reality monitoring processes (e.g., cues used to distinguish real from imagined events) and source monitoring in general; aging and memory; emotion and cognition; executive processes; autobiographical memory
Jonas, Elizabeth
Research Interests:Mitochondrial ion channel; regulation of apoptosis; control of the strength of synaptic transmission in the nervous system
Jordt, Sven-Eric
Research Interests:Sense of touch and pain in humans and animals; Chemosensory processes in sensory neurons and their role in chemical environmental exposures; Neural sensitization in asthma; Hypersensitivity disorders
Kaczmarek, Leonard
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Learning and memory; Ion channels
Karatekin, Erdem
Research Interests:Membrane fusion, exocytosis, secretory vesicle dynamics, fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, microfluidics, supported bilayers, proteoliposomes
Kidd, Kenneth
Research Interests:Complex Human Disorders; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Human Population ; Genetics; Human Evolution
Kim, In-Jung
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Development; Visual System; Neural Circuits; Transgenic approaches; Direction Selectivity
Kober, Hedy
Research Interests:Regulation of craving; emotion regulation; cognition-emotion interaction; neural mechanisms of change; mindfulness; meditation; fmri methods
Kocsis, Jeffery
Research Interests:Transplantation-based approaches toward restoration and preservation of function in the injured central nervous system; Axonal Regeneration; Cell Transplantation; Ion Channels; Nerve Injury; Remyelination; Spinal Cord Injury
Koelle, Michael
Research Interests:C. Elegans; G Protein; Neurotransmission; RGS Protein; Serotonin; Molecular Genetics; Neurobiology; Neurotransmitters; Proteins and Macromolecules; Receptors
Koleske, Anthony
Research Interests:Neuronal morphogenesis and degeneration; stress; schizophrenia; cell migration; cancer; metastasis; adhesion receptors
LaMotte, Robert
Research Interests:Pain; Dorsal root ganglion; Neurons; Electrophysiological; Neurochemical; Itch; Psychophysical; pruritic; Nociceptive sensations; Anesthesiology; Electrophysiology; Nervous System; Neurophysiology; Sensory System
Laubach, Mark
Research Interests:Basal ganglia; Frontal cortex; Associative learning; Decision making; Working memory; Multi-electrode recording; Reversible inactivation methods, including optogenetic techniques; Intra-cranial drug administration; Advanced statistical analysis; Computational models
Lee, Daeyeol
Research Interests:Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and selection; Neural mechanisms of decision making under uncertainty; Neural mechanisms of inter-temporal choice; Neural mechanisms of token & conditioned reinforcements; Reinforcement learning; Behavioral economics and game theory; Function of primate prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia; Coding and transmission of information in a population of neurons
Levy, Ifat
Research Interests:Decision-making; Value; Reward; Risk; Ambiguity; Functional MRI
Li, Chiang-Shan
Research Interests:Psychophysics; Neural imaging
Lim, Janghoo
Research Interests:Mechanisms of neural development, neurological disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases
Lombroso, Paul
Research Interests:Child and adolescent psychiatry; Neuropharmacology
Louvi, Angeliki
Research Interests:Vertebrate neural development; mechanisms of brain morphogenesis and pathogenesis; blood-CSF barrier; choroid plexus; hydrocephalus; cerebrovascular disease; cerebral cavernous malformation; neurodevelopmental disorders; CADASIL; Notch signaling; structural brain disorders
Manuelidis, Laura
Research Interests:Clinical and experimental models of dementia, with an emphasis on Transmissible Encephalopathies (TSEs); Chronic viral infections of the nervous system
Mazer, Jamie
Research Interests:Vision; attention; cortex; sensory processing; coordinate systems; neuroethology
McCormick, David
Research Interests:Cellular mechanisms of cortical function; thalamocortical function and modulation
Mooseker, Mark
Research Interests:The cytoskeleton. Epithelial cell biology. molecular motors
Morris, Evan
Research Interests:kinetic modeling; parameter estimation; parametric imaging; dopamine; reward; drug occupancy; drug abuse; alcoholism; Parkinson's disease
Nairn, Angus
Research Interests:Dopaminergic signal transduction; Structure and function of protein kinases and phosphatases
Nitabach, Michael
Research Interests:Neurophysiology; Molecular genetics; Systems Physiology; Animal Behavior
Pelphrey, Kevin
Research Interests:brain mechanisms; child development; neurodevelopmental disorders
Picciotto, Marina
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Molecular basis of behavior; Intracellular signaling; Mouse genetic models
Pieribone, Vincent
Research Interests:Neurophysiology; Neurotransmission; Voltage dye imaging; Sensory physiology; Drug development; Coral biology; Fluorescent proteins
Pittenger, Christopher
Research Interests:Learning and memory; Habit; CREB; Adeno-associated virus; Behavioral neurobiology; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Glutamate; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Tourette syndrome
Rakic, Pasko
Research Interests:Central nervous system development
Roth, Robert, Jr
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter function; Psychotropic drugs; Catecholamine-containing neurons
Rudnick, Gary
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter recycling; Mechanism of membrane transport
Saltzman, W. Mark
Research Interests:Bio-compatible polymers, drug delivery systems
Santos, Laurie
Research Interests:Primate Cognition
Santos-Sacchi, Joseph
Research Interests:Mammalian inner ear
Schwartz, Michael
Research Interests:Mammalian cerebral cortex
Sestan, Nenad
Research Interests:Evolution and development of neuronal circuits of the human cerebral cortex
Shepherd, Gordon
Research Interests:Neurons; Synapses; Nervous system
Sigworth, Frederick
Research Interests:Cell Physiology; Electron Microscopy; Electrophysiology; Ion Channel; Mathematical Model; Patch Clamp; Potassium Channel; Protein Structure; Sodium Channel; Voltage Gated Channel; Xenopus Oocyte
Small, Dana
Research Interests:Neurophysiology of feeding; Chemical senses; Neuroimaging; Dopamine; Addiction; Motivation; Psychophysics; Stress; Obesity
State, Matthew
Research Interests:Genetic mechanisms; neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood
Strittmatter, Stephen
Research Interests:Axon Guidance; Axon Regeneration; Spinal Cord Injury; Molecular Biology; Stroke; Neurodegenerative Disease; Alzheimer's Disease; Fronto-Temporal Dementia
Taylor, Jane
Research Interests:Addiction; Depression; Learning; Memory; Animal Models; Plasticity; Signaling
Tomita, Susumu
Research Interests:Synaptic transmission; Brain; Biochemistry; molecular biology; immunocytochemistry; gene-targeted animals; electrophysiology
Vaccarino, Flora
Research Interests:Neural stem cells; Cerebral cortex; Neuronal progenitors; Tyrosine kinase growth factors; Excitatory neurons; GABAergic neurons; Postmortem human brain; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Hypoxia
van Dyck, Christopher
Research Interests:Alzheimer's disease; Healthy aging; Cognitive aging; Pharmacotherapy; Neuroimaging; Genetics
Waxman, Stephen
Research Interests:Axons; Electrophysiology; Genes; Ion Channels; Molecular Biology; Multiple Sclerosis; Pain Syndromes; Sodium Channels; Spinal Cord Injury; Stroke
Xu, Tian
Research Interests:Genetic methodology; Cancer biology; Food and metabolism; Developmental mechanisms
Zenisek, David
Research Interests:Physiology and cell biology of the presynaptic terminal; Retinal Bipolar Neuron; Synaptic Terminal; Synaptic Ribbons; Vesicle Transport; Exocytosis; Endocytosis
Zhong, Weimin
Research Interests:asymmetric cell division; differentiation; neurogenesis; progenitor cell; self-renewal; stem cell
Zhou, Z. Jimmy
Research Interests:Physiology and development of the mammalian retina under normal and pathological conditions; Organization and function of retinal synapses and circuits
