Computational and Systems Neuroscience
The Computational and Systems Neuroscience FAR encompasses several synergistic levels of investigation ranging from computational models of brain function, to measurement and perturbation of brain activity during behavior, and interactions between modeling and experiments. Students will join a vibrant research community interested in understanding the brain’s dynamics at the systems level using a combination of computational and experimental approaches.
List of Faculty:
| Adhikari, Avishek | Neural control of emotional behaviors, with a focus on fear and anxiety |
| Arac, Ahmet | Mechanisms of motor behavior and neural activity relationship |
| Bari, Ausaf | Invasive Human Brain Mapping for Reward, Addiction, Decision-Making and Motor Control |
| Bisley, James | Cognitive Processing of Visual Information; Guidance of Eye Movements |
| Blair, Hugh Tad | Learning and Memory; Neural Computation |
| Buonomano, Dean | Neural Dynamics: Neural Basis of Learning and Temporal Processing |
| Churchland, Anne | Sensory perception and decision-making. |
| Coley, Austin | Neural populations and circuits involved in stress and depression behaviors |
| Cross, Kathryn | Neural mechanisms of gait and movement dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease & other movement disorders |
| Dipoppa, Mario | Computational principles governing cortical brain functions |
| Dong, Hong Wei | Construction of the whole mouse brain wiring diagram |
| Field, Greg | Systems neuroscience, visual processing, retinal neurophysiology, neural degeneration |
| Golshani, Peyman | Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Epilepsies |
| Hong, Weizhe | Neural Mechanisms of Social Behavior |
| Huk, Alex | Neural computations underlying vision, cognition, and action |
| Kao, Jonathan | Computational systems neuroscience and neural engineering |
| Masmanidis, Sotiris | Neural circuits of reward learning and motor control, addiction, movement disorders |
| Mehta, Mayank | Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Sleep, Neural Oscillations, Neural Coding |
| Monti, Martin | Disorders of consciousness (Coma, Vegetative State, Minimally Conscious State); Language and thought; Neuroimaging; Brain Stimulation |
| 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 |
| Ringach, Dario | Visual Neurophysiology and Perception |
| Samarasinghe, Ranmal | Neural network formation and dysfunction in epilepsy and autism; stem cell models; brain organoids |
| Suthana, Nanthia | Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging of Human Learning and Memory |
| Trachtenberg, Joshua | Understanding Cortical Plasticity from Synapses to Circuits |
| Wikenheiser, Andrew | Understanding how neural representations guide behavior |
| Wilke, Scott | Role of prefrontal cortex circuits in adaptive and maladaptive decision making |
| 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). |