Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology
Research Interests
- Neurology
- Neurobiology
- Apoptosis
- Cell Proliferation
- Central Nervous System
Our Lab Team
Principle Investigator
Current Lab Members
- Research Interests
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Synapses
- Neural Stem Cells
- Neurons
- Pluripotent Stem Cells
- Organizers, Embryonic
- Mental Disorders
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
- Interneurons
- Embryo, Mammalian
- GABAergic Neurons
- Brain
- Dopaminergic Neurons
- Research Interests
- Central Nervous System
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
Students
- Jamie Benoit
Graduate Student
Summary of Research and Future Directions: My interest is in how neurons change their connectivity and structure during the "critical period" of development and how this may be applicable to human disorders. Currently, I am investigating the possibility of inducing critical period-like synaptic plasticity in an adult - Martin H. Dominguez
Md/PhD Student
I am interested in developmental dynamics, i.e. changes to the neural stem cell niche as development proceeds through time. I am interested in neural molecular identity, differentiation, and cell fate restriction in early cortical progenitors. My thesis work focuses on the interactions between both novel and well-established transcriptional regulators in cortex development.
Staff
Senior Administrative Assistant Neuroscience; Cerebral Cortex Editorial Assistant
Former Lab Members
Graduate Students (GS) and Postdoctoral Fellows (PF) in chronological order
Richard Nowakowski, GS, Prof. & Chair, Neurobiology, UFL, Tallahassee
Carla Shatz, PF, Professor & Director, Bio-X, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Ivica Kostovic, PF, Director, Croatian Brain Institute, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Pat Levitt, PF, Professor, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, USC, LA, CA
Anthony La Mantia, GS, Prof. & Chair, Neuroscience Inst., GWU, Washington, DC
Nada Zecevic, GS, Professor, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT
Jean-Pierre Bourgeois, PF, Researcher CNRS, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Rodrigo Kuljis, PF, Prof. & Chair, Neurology, University of Miami, FL
Robert Williams, PF, Prof. & Chair, Computational Genomics, UTHSC, Memphis, TN
Douglas Meinecke, PF, Chief, Developmental Neuroscience Program, NIMH, Bethesda, MD
Richard Cameron, PF, Assoc. Professor, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Hitoshi Komuro, PF, Assoc. Professor, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH
Eva Anton, PF, Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
David Kornack, PF, Assoc. Professor, University of Rochester, NY
Maria Donoghue, PF, Assoc. Professor, GWU, Washington, DC
Chia-Yi (Alex) Kuan, GS, PF, Associate Professor, UC, Cincinnati, OH
Tarik Haydar, PF, Professor, Boston University, MA
Nenad Sestan, GS, PF, Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Skirmantas Janusonis, PF, Professor, UC Santa Barbara, CA
Matthew Sarkisian, PF, Assist. Professor, UFL, Gainesville, FL
Xiu-Xin Liu, PF, Asst. Professor. University of Rochester, NY
Joshua Breunig, GS, PF, Assist. Professor, Cedars-Sinai MC, LA, CA
Kazue Hashimoto-Torii, PF, Assist. Professor, CNMC at GWU, Washington, DC
Masaaki Torii, PF, Assist. Professor, CNMC at GWU, Washington, DC