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Alphabetically, or by department
A-B top of page Ted Abel, PhD
Dept of Biology: Genetic approaches to study the molecular basis of
synaptic plasticity, learning and memory
Clay Armstrong, MD
Dept of Physiology: Ionic
channels and their gating mechanisms
Gary Aston-Jones, PhD Dept of Psychiatry:
Neurobiology of attention, affect and reward; neuromodulatory systems
of norepinephrine, dopamine, or cholinergic neurons; drug abuse, attention
deficit disorder and stress/depression Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: 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 Dept
of Neuroscience: Molecular characterization of ion channels in excitable
membranes Greg Bashaw, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: Molecular mechanisms of axon growth and guidance during nervous system development. We are interested specifically in how axon guidance receptors specify attractive and repulsive signals and transmit these signals to the navigating growth cone to generate a directed motile response. Stephen M. Baylor, MD Dept
of Physiology: Excitation-contraction coupling in muscle; measurement
of intracellular ionic concentrations Jean Bennett, MD, PhD Dept
of Ophthalmology: Genetics, pathology and treatment of inherited retinal
degenerations Julie Blendy, PhD
Dept of Pharmacology: molecular basis of drug abuse
Kwabena A. Boahen, PhD
Depts of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering: Designing mixed
analog-digital, multichip, microelectronic systems that model the
structure and function of early
stages of the visual and auditory pathways
Nancy Bonini, PhD
Dept of Biology: Molecular genetics of neurodegenerative disease
Maja Bucan, PhD Depts of
Psychiatry, Genetics: Genetic dissection of complex behaviors in mice;
Functional genomics
Anjan Chatterjee, MD
Dept of Neurology: The cognitive neuroscience of spatial attention and
representation, the neural basis of language, and the relationship of
space and language
Diego Contreras, MD, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Representation of information in corticothalamic
networks. Epilepsy. Douglas A. Coulter, PhD Dept
of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology: Epilepsy, neuronal excitability,
CNS rhythm generation, GABA receptors, development of neurotransmitter
receptors and ion channels, synaptic function Bryan Crenshaw, PhD Mammalian
Neurogenetics Lab/CHOP: Analysis of the role of developmental regulatory
factors during mouse embryonic development Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD Dept
of Neurology: Epilepsy; cortical physiology; regulation of synaptic
function; James H. Eberwine, PhD
Dept of Pharmacology: Molecular basis of neuronal adaptation with
emphasis on the following adaptive processes; tetanic potentiation, glucocorticoid-induced, age-induced as
well as opiate-induced adaptation
Martha J. Farah, PhD Dept of
Psychology: Cognition-emotion interactions in the human brain; cognitive
development and brain function Leif Finkel, MD, PhD Dept of
Bioengineering: Computer neuroscience and neuroengineering Lori Flanagan-Cato, PhD
Dept of Psychology: Steroid-induced plasticity of neural circuits to
control reproductive and ingestive behaviors Steven J. Fluharty, PhD Dept of Animal
Biology: Regulation of neuropeptide receptor gene expression and signal
transduction in cultured neuronal cells and behaving animals George L. Gerstein, PhD
Dept of
Physiology: Representationof information in auditory and visual
systems, particularly with reference to function of assemblies of
neurons; models of neuronal networks Jeffrey A. Golden, MD
Dept of Pathology: Patterning and Cell Migration in the Developing
Nervous System
Francisco A. González-Scarano, MD
Dept of Neurology:
Viral determinants of neurotropism in two systems: human immunodeficiency
virus and La Crosse Bunyavirus Michael Granato, PhD Depts of Cell
and Developmental Biology: Genetic control of axonal guidance in the
zebrafish; the zebrafish as a model system for motor behavior regulation
in psychiatric diseases Harvey J. Grill, PhD
Dept of Psychology: Neural
control of nutrient intake; gastrointestinal physiology; pharmacology of
intake and gastrointestinal function Judith B. Grinspan, PhD Dept
of Neurology: 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.
Philip G. Haydon, PhD Dept of Neuroscience: 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. Harry Ischiropoulos, PhD Dept of Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Biophysics: Oxidative stress, post-translational protein modifications and protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases. Non-invasive discovery and validation of disease biomarkers. Daniel S. Kessler, PhD Vertebrate development; signal transduction; transcriptional regulation; primary germ layers; Spemann's organizer. Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD Dept of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Biology of tau, synucleins and amyloid
beta precursor proteins (APPs) in health and disease Irwin B. Levitan, PhD Dept
of Neuroscience: Modulation of neuronal activity and neuronal ion channels
Jon M. Lindstrom, PhD Dept
of Neuroscience: The structure of nicotinic acetylocholine receptors
from muscles and nerves; the autoimmune response to muscle nicotinic
receptors in myasthenia gravis Zhe Lu, MD, PhD Dept of Physiology:
Molecular mechanisms of potassium channels and retinal cGMP-activated
channels Irwin Lucki, PhD Dept of Psychiatry
and Psychology: (1) Behavioral pharmacology; (2) Mechanism of action
of antidepressant and antianxiety medications; (3) Stress neurobiology
and psychiatric disorders David R. Lynch, MD
Dept of Neurology & Pediatrics: NMDA receptors
Tracy McIntosh, PhD Dept of
Neurosurgery: 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.
Richard R. Miselis, VMD, PhD
Dept of Animal Biology: Neuroanatomy; visceral neuraxis; ingestive behaviors;
homeostasis Adrian R. Morrison, DVM, PhD
Dept of Animal Biology: Neural control of sleep and wakefulness Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD Dept of Emergency Medicine: 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. Michael Nusbaum, PhD Dept of
Neuroscience: Neural network modulation; motor pattern selection from
multifunctional networks; local, presynaptic influences; neuropeptide
function Ana Lia Obaid, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Optical
measurements of electrical activity; excitation-secretion coupling; simple
nervous systems in vitro; enteric nervous system Allan I. Pack, MD, PhD Dept of
Medicine: Neural control of respiration; effect of sleep on neural control
of respiration, sleep apnea syndrome Larry A. Palmer, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Cortical circuits mediating direction and orientation
selective responses and responses from outside the classical receptive
field in visual cortex. Thomas D. Parsons, VMD, PhD
Dept of Clinical Science: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter
release Laura L. Peoples, PhD Dept of Psychology: Behavioral pharmacology, neuropharmacology; electrophysiological recordings in freely-moving animals. Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD Dept of Ophthalmology: Molecular bases of inherited retinal degenerations. Randall N. Pittman, PhD Dept
of Pharmacology: Cellular and molecular events in neural apoptosis and
polyglutamine repeat expansion neurodegenerative diseases. David E. Pleasure, MD Depts
of Neurology and Pediatrics: Molecular studies of differentiation and
death of neural cells Edward N. Pugh, PhD
Dept of Ophthalmology: Photoreceptor transduction in rods and
cones; early processes in human color vision; polarization vision in
vertebrates; "polarization contrast" vision Jonathan A. Raper, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Developmental
neurobiology; growth cone guidance; cell recognition; cell motility; and
regeneration Virginia M. Richards, PhD
Dept of Psychology:
Auditory perception; decision processes Michael Robinson, PhD
Dept of Pediatrics and
Pharmacology: Signaling pathways that regulate glutamate transporters and the
relationship of these transporters to acute brain injury
Alan C. Rosenquist, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience:
Anatomy and physiology of the visual system Brian Salzberg, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Optical
probes of membrane potential James C. Saunders, PhD
Dept of Otorhinolaryngology:
Psychobiology and neurobiology of hearing Steve Scherer, MD, PhD Dept
of Neurology: Axon-Schwann cell interactions in developing and regenerating
peripheral nerve Marc Schmidt, PhD
Dept of Biology: Encoding of complex motor behaviors; auditory/motor
integration; neural basis of vocal learning
Amita Sehgal, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Genetic
and molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms in
Drosophila Michael E. Selzer, MD, PhD Dept
of Neurology: Spinal cord regeneration in lamprey David Solomon, MD, PhD Dept
of Neurology: Vestibular ocular motor neurophysiology, clinical neuro-otology,
kinematics and biomechanics of human gaze control, turning and circular
locomotion Peter Sterling, PhD
Dept of Neuroscience: Microcircuitry
of the visual system Steven A. Thomas, MD, PhD Dept
of Pharmacology: The roles of neurotransmission in development, neurophysiology
and ultimately behavior Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, PhD
Dept of Psychology: Neural bases of memory and language in humans
John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD
Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Cytoskeletal protein abnormalities
in normal maturing, developing, aging, and neoplastic neurons Frank A. Welsh, PhD Dept of Neurosurgery/Surgery:
Molecular mechanisms of ischemic injury in the brain; effect of cerebral
ischemia on gene expression
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