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Animal Biology
Steven J. Fluharty, PhD
Regulation of neuropeptide receptor gene expression and signal transduction
in cultured neuronal cells and behaving animals
Richard R. Miselis, VMD, PhD
Neuroanatomy; visceral neuraxis; ingestive behaviors; homeostasis
Adrian R. Morrison, DVM, PhD
Neural control of sleep and wakefulness
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Bioengineering
Leif Finkel, MD, PhD Computer
neuroscience and neuroengineering
Kwabena A. Boahen, PhD
Designing mixed
analog-digital, multichip, microelectronic systems that model the
structure and function of early
stages of the visual and auditory pathways
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Biology
Ted Abel, PhD
Genetic approaches to study the molecular basis of
synaptic plasticity, learning and memory
Nancy Bonini, PhD
Molecular genetics of neurodegenerative disease
Marc Schmidt, PhD
Encoding of complex motor behaviors; auditory/motor
integration; neural basis of vocal learning
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Cell Biology
Michael Granato, PhD Genetic
control of axonal guidance in the zebrafish; the zebrafish as a model
system for motor behavior regulation in psychiatric diseases
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Clinical Science
Thomas D. Parsons VMD, PhD
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release
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Emergency Medicine
Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD
Mechanisms of neuronal injury after cardiac arrest and stroke. Current
research projects include investigation of: 1) the mechanism and consequences
of disrupted calcium homeostasis in post-ischemic neurons, 2) the role
of calpain and caspase proteolytic cascades in post-ischemic neuronal
death.
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Medicine
Allan I. Pack, MD, PhD Neural
control of respiration; effect of sleep on neural control of respiration,
sleep apnea syndrome
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Neurology
Anjan Chatterjee, MD
The cognitive neuroscience of spatial attention and
representation, the neural basis of language, and the relationship of
space and language
Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD Epilepsy;
cortical physiology; regulation of synaptic function;
Francisco A. González-Scarano, MD
Viral determinants of neurotropism in two systems: human immunodeficiency
virus and La Crosse Bunyavirus
Judith B. Grinspan, PhD
Origin and development of oligodendroglia and
synthesis of myelin; control of proliferation, differentiation and
survival of the oligodendroglial lineage; plasticity of
oligodendroglia; programmed cell death in myelinating cells.
David R. Lynch, MD
NMDA receptors
David E. Pleasure, MD
Biochemical
studies of glial membrane structure and function
Steve Scherer, MD, PhD Axon-Schwann
cell interactions in developing and regenerating peripheral nerve
Michael E. Selzer, MD, PhD Spinal
cord regeneration in lamprey
David Solomon, MD, PhD Vestibular
ocular motor neurophysiology, clinical neuro-otology, kinematics and
biomechanics of human gaze control, turning and circular locomotion
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Neuroscience
Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD
Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity during neural development,
using neuromuscular and cns synapses as model systems; neurotrophic
and other cell-cell signaling mechanisms underlying synapse formation
and maintenance
Robert Barchi, MD, PhD Molecular
characterization of ion channels in excitable membranes
Diego Contreras, MD, PhD
Representation of information in corticothalamic networks. Epilepsy.
Bryan Crenshaw, PhD Analysis
of the role of developmental regulatory factors during mouse embryonic
development
George L. Gerstein, PhD
Representationof information in auditory and visual
systems, particularly with reference to function of assemblies of
neurons; models of neuronal networks
Philip G. Haydon, Ph.D. The regulation
of synaptic transmission. In particular we are interested in the reciprocal
signaling between synapses and astrocytes that is mediated by the release
of chemical transmitters and how astrocytes regulate synapse development
and function.
Irwin B. Levitan, PhD Modulation
of neuronal activity and neuronal ion channels
Jon M. Lindstrom, PhD
The structure of nicotinic acetylocholine receptors from muscles and nerves;
the autoimmune response to muscle nicotinic receptors in myasthenia
gravis
Michael Nusbaum, PhD
Neural
network modulation; motor pattern selection from multifunctional networks;
local, presynaptic influences; neuropeptide function
Ana Lia Obaid, PhD
Optical
measurements of electrical activity; excitation-secretion coupling; simple
nervous systems in vitro; enteric nervous system
Larry A. Palmer, PhD
Cortical circuits mediating direction and orientation selective
responses and responses from outside the classical receptive field in
visual cortex.
Jonathan A. Raper, PhD
Developmental
neurobiology; growth cone guidance; cell recognition; cell motility; and
regeneration
Alan C. Rosenquist, PhD
Anatomy and physiology of the visual system
Brian Salzberg, PhD
Optical
probes of membrane potential
Amita Sehgal, PhD
Genetic
and molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms in
Drosophila
Peter Sterling,
PhD Microcircuitry of the visual system
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Neurosurgery
Tracy McIntosh, PhD Molecular
and cellular sequelae of central nervous system injury; Cell death/survival
pathways and DNA damage/repair mechanisms; Neuroprotective treatments
including gene therapy and stem cell transplantation.
Frank A. Welsh, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of ischemic injury in the brain; effect of cerebral
ischemia on gene expression
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Ophthalmology
Jean Bennett, MD, PhD Genetics,
pathology and treatment of inherited retinal degenerations
Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD Molecular
bases of inherited retinal degenerations.
Edward N. Pugh, PhD
Photoreceptor transduction in rods and cones; early processes
in human color vision; polarization vision in vertebrates; "polarization
contrast" vision
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Otorhinolaryngology
James C. Saunders, PhD
Psychobiology and neurobiology of hearing
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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Jeffrey A. Golden, MD
Patterning and Cell Migration in the Developing
Nervous System
Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD
Biology of tau, synucleins and amyloid beta precursor proteins (APPs)
in health and disease
John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD
Cytoskeletal protein abnormalities in normal maturing, developing, aging,
and neoplastic neurons
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Pediatrics
Douglas A. Coulter, PhD Epilepsy, neuronal
excitability, CNS rhythm generation, GABA receptors, development of
neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels, synaptic function
Akiva Cohen, PhD Brain excitability
and circuit rearrangement and their alterations observed under pathophysiology
Harry
Ischiropoulos, PhD Oxidative stress, post-translational
protein modifications and protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases.
Non-invasive discovery and validation of disease biomarkers
Michael Robinson, PhD
Signaling pathways that regulate glutamate transporters and the
relationship of these transporters to acute brain injury
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Pharmacology
Julie Blendy, PhD
Molecular basis of drug abuse
James H. Eberwine, PhD
Molecular basis of neuronal adaptation with
emphasis on the following adaptive processes; tetanic potentiation, glucocorticoid-induced, age-induced as
well as opiate-induced adaptation
Randall N. Pittman, PhD
Cellular and molecular events in neural apoptosis and polyglutamine repeat
expansion neurodegenerative diseases.
Steven A. Thomas, MD, PhD The
roles of neurotransmission in development, neurophysiology and ultimately
behavior
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Physiology
Clay Armstrong, MD
Ionic
channels and their gating mechanisms
Stephen M. Baylor, MD
Excitation-contraction
coupling in muscle; measurement of intracellular ionic concentrations
Zhe Lu, MD, PhD Molecular mechanisms
of potassium channels and retinal cGMP-activated channels
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Psychiatry
Gary Aston-Jones, PhD
Neurobiology of attention, affect and reward; neuromodulatory
systems of norepinephrine, dopamine, or cholinergic neurons;
drug abuse, attention deficit and stress/depression
Maja Bucan, PhD Genetic dissection
of complex behaviors in mice; Functional genomics
Irwin Lucki, PhD (1) Behavioral pharmacology;
(2) Mechanism of action of antidepressant and antianxiety medications;
(3) Stress neurobiology and psychiatric disorders
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Psychology
Benjamin Backus, Ph.D. How binocular
disparities are used by the brain during stereoscopic shape and space
perception
Martha J. Farah, PhD
Neural
bases of vision and visual cognition in humans
Lori Flanagan-Cato, PhD
Steroid-induced plasticity of neural circuits to control reproductive
and ingestive behaviors
Harvey J. Grill, PhD
Neural
control of nutrient intake; gastrointestinal physiology; pharmacology of
intake and gastrointestinal function
Virginia M. Richards, PhD
Auditory perception; decision processes
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, PhD
Neural bases of memory and language in humans
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Wistar Institute
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