Faculty
New Members - as of December 2024
| Name | Research fields | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Abderemane-Ali, Fayal | Ion channel macromolecular complexes in neuronal and cardiac channelopathies | |
| Adhikari, Avishek | Neural control of emotional behaviors, with a focus on fear and anxiety | |
| Aharoni, Daniel | Tool and technique development for neuro-behavioral research | |
| Ajijola, Olujimi A. | Cardiac Neurobiology, Neuroplasticity after cardiac injury, Neural Control of Cardiopulmonary Function | |
| Akin, Orkun | Role of neural activity in brain development and synapse formation | |
| Alward, Beau | Neuroendocrinology of social behavior | |
| Andrews, Anne | Serotonin & Anxiety | |
| Arac, Ahmet | Mechanisms of motor behavior and neural activity relationship | |
| Arnold, Arthur | Sexual Differentiation of the Brain | |
| Askary, Amjad | Lineage and cell fate specification in the mammalian retina | |
| Balliu, Brunilda | Genetic basis of neuropsychiatric traits in humans. | |
| Bari, Ausaf | Invasive Human Brain Mapping for Reward, Addiction, Decision-Making and Motor Control | |
| Barnes, Steven A. | Ion Channel Biophysics in the Retina: Vision, Neurons, Circuits and Metabolism | |
| Bearden, Carrie | Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Cognition, Neuroimaging and Genetics of Mood Disorders and Psychosis | |
| Bhaduri, Aparna | Regulation of cell fate specification in normal human cortical development and glioblastoma, using single-cell approaches and cortical organoid models. | |
| Bisley, James | Cognitive Processing of Visual Information; Guidance of Eye Movements | |
| Bitan, Gal | Neurodegenerative Diseases | |
| Black, Douglas | Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Neurons | |
| Blair, Hugh Tad | Learning and Memory; Neural Computation | |
| Blaisdell, Aaron | Learning and Behavior | |
| Blank, Idan | Language comprehension and its relation to high-level cognition | |
| Bookheimer, Susan | Functional Neuroimaging of Language and Memory | |
| Brecha, Nicholas | Neurochemical Pathways in the Vertebrate Retina | |
| Bronstein, Jeff | Molecular Biology of Glia and Glial Tumors | |
| Buonomano, Dean | Neural Dynamics: Neural Basis of Learning and Temporal Processing | |
| Butler, Samantha | Generating and regenerating neural circuitry in the spinal cord | |
| Cahill, Catherine | Chronic pain and opioid addiction | |
| Carmichael Jr., Stanley | Neuroplasticity After Brain Injury | |
| Castrellon, Jaime | Social and affective mechanisms of motivation and decision making | |
| Charles, Andrew | Cellular and pharmacological mechanisms of migraine and pain | |
| Churchland, Anne | Sensory perception and decision-making. | |
| Clewett, David | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory in humans | |
| Coley, Austin | Neural populations and circuits involved in stress and depression behaviors | |
| Colwell, Christopher | Neural Control of Behavior, Circadian Rhythms | |
| Cooper, Ziva | Neurobiology of cannabis, cannabinoids, and endocannabinoids | |
| Correa, Stephanie | Neural control of energy homeostasis, estrogen signaling, neuroendocrinology | |
| Cramer, Steven C. | Neural plasticity after stroke in humans | |
| Cross, Kathryn | Neural mechanisms of gait and movement dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease & other movement disorders | |
| Daboussi, Lydia | Mechanisms of Plasticity for Neural Repair | |
| Dapretto, Mirella | Neuroimaging/imaging genetics of language and social cognition in typical and atypical development (emphasis on adolescence and autism spectrum disorders); cultural neuroscience | |
| De Biase, Lindsay | Influence of microglial cells on normal and pathological circuit function | |
| de la Torre-Ubieta, Luis | Mechanisms of human neocortical development and neuropsychiatric disease using neural stem cell models and bioinformatic approaches. | |
| Dean, Andrew | Neuropsychology of Addictions | |
| Demer, Joseph | Ocular Motor System, Vestibular System | |
| DeNardo, Laura | Assembly and function of neural circuits underlying adaptive behaviors | |
| Deng, Sophie X. | Development of cell-based therapies that regenerate the cornea and restore vision | |
| Deters, Kacie | Risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia in Black individuals | |
| Dickson, Patricia | Neurodegeneration | |
| Dipoppa, Mario | Computational principles governing cortical brain functions | |
| Dong, Hong Wei | Construction of the whole mouse brain wiring diagram | |
| Donlea, Jeffrey M. | Sleep regulation, learning and memory | |
| Ellingson, Benjamin | Neuro-Oncology Neuroimaging & Neuroimaging in Complex Neuropathologies | |
| Evans, Christopher | Opioid Systems | |
| Fanselow, Michael | Learning, Memory and Emotion | |
| Feldman, Jack | Properties of Neurons Resulting in Behavior | |
| Field, Greg | Systems neuroscience, visual processing, retinal neurophysiology, neural degeneration | |
| Flint, Jonathan | Genetic basis of anxiety and depression in animal models and in humans | |
| Fogel, Brent | Exploring the Molecular Basis of Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Disease | |
| Freimer, Nelson | Identifying Genes that Contribute to Predisposition to Complex Human Phenotypes | |
| Fried, Itzhak | The Neuronal Basis of Human Memory; Ameliorating Memory Dysfunction with Stimulation | |
| Frye, Mark | Cross-Modal Sensory Fusion and Sensory-Motor Integration | |
| Galvan, Adriana | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| Geschwind, Daniel | Neurogenetics, Systems Biology of Neurodevelopmental (e.g. Autism) and Neurodegenerative Disorders (Dementia and Ataxia) | |
| Giza, Christopher | Developmental Traumatic Brain Injury and Neuroplasticity | |
| Glanzman, David | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | |
| Golshani, Peyman | Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Epilepsies | |
| Gomez-Pinilla, Fernando | Mechanisms of Neural Repair | |
| Gorin, Michael | Molecular Genetics and Mechanisms of Retinal Disorders | |
| Green, Shulamite | Sensory, cognitive, and affective neurodevelopment across clinical groups (e.g., autism, anxiety disorders, early life adversity) | |
| Guo, Ming | Studying Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Disorders in Drosophila | |
| Guo, Zhefeng | Structural Biology of Amyloid-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases | |
| Hallem, Elissa | Olfactory Behavior in Free-living and Parasitic Nematodes | |
| Harper, Ronald | Neural Mechanisms in Sleep State | |
| Harris, Neil | Plasticity after Traumatic Brain Injury | |
| Hartenstein, Volker | Brain Development in Drosophila | |
| Hernandez, Leanna | Psychiatric genetics, neuroimaging, neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism, schizophrenia, ADHD) | |
| Hinman, Jason | Cellular and molecular mechanisms at the interface between stroke and dementia | |
| Ho, Tiffany | Adolescent stress, neurodevelopment, and depression | |
| Hoftman, Gil | Understanding psychosis risk using neuroimaging and genetics | |
| Hong, Weizhe | Neural Mechanisms of Social Behavior | |
| Houser, Carolyn | Morphological Organization and Plasticity of the GABA System; Neurochemical Anatomy of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy | |
| Hsiao, Elaine | Neurobiology of disease, neuroimmunology, microbiome-nervous system interactions | |
| Huk, Alex | Neural computations underlying vision, cognition, and action | |
| Iacoboni, Marco | Non Invasive Human Systems Neuroscience | |
| Irwin, Michael | Psychoneuroimmunology | |
| Izquierdo, Alicia | Neuroscience of Decision making; Addiction | |
| Kagan, Bruce | Neurotoxicity Caused by Channel Forming Toxins | |
| Kao, Jonathan | Computational systems neuroscience and neural engineering | |
| Kaufman, Daniel | Therapeutics for diabetes and neurological disease | |
| Khakh, Baljit | Ion Channels, Glia and Synapses | |
| Knowlton, Barbara | Neural Substrates of Higher Cognitive Functions | |
| Konopka, Genevieve | Neurogenomics of brain development, autism, memory and evolution | |
| Kornblum, Harley | Neural Stem Cells and Brain Tumors | |
| Krantz, David | Using Drosophila to Study Neurotransmitter Transport, Synaptic Transmission, Behavior and Disease | |
| Kumar, Rajesh | Neural control of autonomic, breathing, and cognitive functions. | |
| Lai, Albert | Pharmacogenomics of Glioblastoma Response to Therapy | |
| Lavretsky, Helen | Understanding neurobiology of resilience and aging in mood and cognitive disorders | |
| Lawrence, Rosalie | Stress-driven and metabolic mechanisms of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration | |
| Leal, Stephanie | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory in healthy and disease states (e.g. depression, aging, Alzheimer's disease) | |
| Leitch, Duncan | Sensory system function, physiology, and behavior in diverse animal models | |
| Leuchter, Andrew | Neurophysiology of Depression; Neurophysiologic Predictors of Treatment Outcome | |
| Levine, Michael | Neurophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Neurodegenerative Disorders | |
| Liau, Linda | Experimental Therapeutics for Brain Tumors | |
| Liu, Zili | How People See and Why They See The Way They Do? | |
| London, Edythe | Neuroimaging Brain Function in Addictive and Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders | |
| Loo, Sandra | Gene-Brain-Behavior Pathways in Childhood Psychiatric Disorders | |
| Lu, Daniel | Regenerative Treatment | |
| MacKenzie-Graham, Allan | Understanding and preventing neurodegeneration | |
| Maidment, Nigel | Neuropharmacology of Substance Abuse | |
| Martin, Kelsey | Cell Biology of Learning-related Synaptic Plasticity | |
| Masmanidis, Sotiris | Neural circuits of reward learning and motor control, addiction, movement disorders | |
| Massaly, Nicolas | Neurocircuits underlying pain affect, rewarding and aversive properties of stimuli, and substance use disorders | |
| Mathern, Gary | Biological Mechanisms Linked to Epilepsy | |
| Mathews, Paul | Mechanisms of learning and memory, motor coordination | |
| Mayer, Emeran | Neurobiology of Stress, Pain and Emotion | |
| Mazziotta, John | Neuroimaging, Brain Mapping | |
| McCracken, James | Anxiety Disorders; Pediatric Psychopharmacology | |
| Mehta, Mayank | Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Sleep, Neural Oscillations, Neural Coding | |
| Mendizabal, Adys | Study of social and structural determinants of health and its impact in neurological outcomes: Health Disparities in Huntington’s Disease and Adverse Childhood Experiences across different neurological conditions | |
| Metzner, Walter | Behavioral Neuroscience (Neuroethology) | |
| Micevych, Paul | Reproductive Neuroendocrinology, Neuroprotection, Pain | |
| Mody, Istvan | Synaptic Signaling in Health and Disease | |
| Monti, Martin | Disorders of consciousness (Coma, Vegetative State, Minimally Conscious State); Language and thought; Neuroimaging; Brain Stimulation | |
| Narins, Peter | Auditory Neurophysiology, Mechanics and Behavior | |
| Narr, Katherine | Applied Neurobiological Imaging | |
| Nathanson, David | Research and drug development for malignant brain tumors | |
| Novitch, Bennett | Regulation of Stem and Progenitor Cell Specification and Differentiation in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System | |
| Nurmi, Erika | Pharmacogenomic factors in treatment of autisim, ADHD, anxiety and depression | |
| O'Dell, Thomas | Synaptic and Molecular Mechanisms in Learning and Memory Formation | |
| O'Neill, Patrick | New methods to control and record G protein coupled receptor signaling in the brain | |
| Olcese, Riccardo | Molecular Physiology of Ion Channels | |
| Olde Loohuis, Loes | The identification of genetic and environmental variables that contribute to the cause and course of psychiatric illness | |
| Ophoff, Roel | Human Genetic Studies of Neuropsychiatric Traits | |
| Papazian, Diane | Voltage Gated K Channels: Functional Mechanisms and Role in Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration | |
| Paul, Ketema | Sleep regulatory mechanisms | |
| Peng, Chao | Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases | |
| Peng, Yi-Rong | Genetic Dissection of Retinal Circuits | |
| Petersen, Nicole | Translational neuroimaging and human neuroendocrinology | |
| Phelps, Patricia | Neuronal Development - Cell Migration and Axon Outgrowth | |
| Piri, Natik | Retinal Ganglion Cells and Optic Neuropathies | |
| Poe, Gina | Investigating the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation | |
| Portera-Cailliau, Carlos | Imaging the Assembly and Plasticity of Cortical Circuits with Two Photon Microscopy | |
| Prins, Mayumi Lynn | Pediatric Response to Traumatic Brain Injury | |
| Ray, Lara | Genetics of Addiction Etiology and Treatment | |
| Reavis, Eric | Understanding perception, cognition, and social information processing in psychosis using methods from cognitive neuroscience | |
| Rexach, Jessica | Immune regulators of neurodegeneration; systems biology, functional genomics, experimental disease modeling | |
| Ringach, Dario | Visual Neurophysiology and Perception | |
| Rissman, Jesse | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of memory formation and retrieval in humans | |
| Sagasti, Alvaro | Development of Complex Cell Shapes in Zebrafish Touch-Sensing Neurons | |
| Samarasinghe, Ranmal | Neural network formation and dysfunction in epilepsy and autism; stem cell models; brain organoids | |
| Samelson, Avi | Functional genomics in iPSC-derived neurons and glia, protein aggregation, neuronal ubiquitin/proteasome system | |
| Sampath, Alapakkam | Retinal Physiology and Visual Performance | |
| Schlinger, Barney | Steroid Synthesis and Action in the Vertebrate CNS | |
| Schweizer, Felix | Molecular Mechanisms and Regulation of Synaptic Transmission | |
| Shah, Pavak | Synaptogenesis, circuit assembly and the cellular basis of neural dynamics. | |
| Shams, Ladan | Multi-Sensory Integration; Perceptual Learning; Adaptation | |
| Shivkumar, Kalyanam | Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias, Autonomic Regulation of Myocardial Excitability | |
| Siegel, Jerome | Sleep, Motor Control | |
| Smith, Desmond | Functional Neurogenomics | |
| Sofroniew, Michael | Neural Injury and Repair | |
| Spigelman, Igor | Neuropharmacology | |
| Sternini, Catia | The “Brain in the Gut” and Taste Receptors | |
| Sun, Yi | The Molecular Control of Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation | |
| Suthana, Nanthia | Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging of Human Learning and Memory | |
| Tornini, Val | Genetics of vertebrate neurodevelopment | |
| Trachtenberg, Joshua | Understanding Cortical Plasticity from Synapses to Circuits | |
| Uddin, Lucina | Brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development | |
| Voskuhl, Rhonda | Neuroimmunology, Neuroendocrinology and Neuroprotection | |
| Wassum, Kate | Behavioral Neuroscience, Learning and Behavior, Addiction | |
| Wayne, Nancy | Mechanisms Regulating Reproductive-Neuron Physiology | |
| Wells, Michael | Discovery of autism disease mechanisms using mixed-donor human stem cell villages | |
| White, Stephanie | Social Influences on Learning and Memory | |
| Wikenheiser, Andrew | Understanding how neural representations guide behavior | |
| Wilke, Scott | Role of prefrontal cortex circuits in adaptive and maladaptive decision making | |
| Williams, David | Retinal Cell Biology, Sensory Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration | |
| Woods, Roger | Structural and Functional Brain Imaging | |
| Wu, Ye "Emily" | Neural basis of empathy and prosocial behavior | |
| Xiang, Yang Kevin | Neuroendocrine in heart and brain, neurodegenerative, GPCR signaling and gene expression. | |
| Yang, X. William | Mouse Genetic Approach to Study the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases | |
| Yang, Xian-Jie | Development and Diseases of the Vertebrate Neural Retina | |
| Zeiger, William | Investigating mechanisms of cortical circuit dysfunction in mouse models of neurologic diseases | |
| Zhang, Chuchu | Neural mechanisms of internal sensations i.e. how we feel inside our body, with a focus on the molecular and circuit mechanisms of nausea. | |
| Zhang, Ye | Glia biology in health and disease | |
| Zheng, Jie J. | Therapeutic development in ophthalmology | |
| Zhou, Z. Hong | Studies structures of synaptic receptors, neuronal infections and neurodegenerative diseases by cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM). | |
| Zipursky, Larry S. | Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neuronal Circuit Assembly | |
| Zylberberg, Joel | Machine learning and information theory applied to visual neuroscience |

