Joseph C. Arezzo, Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Neurology. Electrophysiological analysis of cortical and subcortical mechanisms associated with sensorimotor processes in behaving monkeys; neurologic function in mutant mice.

Thaddeus A. Bargiello, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Molecular genetics and biophysics of gap junction channels; structure-function relationships and biological roles.

Michael V.L. Bennett, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Chemical and electrical synapses; structure-function studies of connexins and glutamate receptors; physiological roles analyzed by gene knock outs.

Feliksas Bukauskas, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Gap junction channel formation and gating.

Reed Carroll, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticty.

Pablo Castillo, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Synaptic transmission, modulation and plasticity; the properties of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in themammalian brain and the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity during developmentand in learning and memory.

Kostantin Dobrenis, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Novel approaches to treatment of diseases affecting the CNS; microglial biology: lineage, secretion, receptor systems, and interactions with neurons.

Anne M. Etgen, Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor, Department of Pediatrics. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone action in brain; steroid receptors; steroid-monoamine interactions; steroids and amino acid neurotransmission.

Donald S. Faber, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience. Functional organization and adaptive properties of central synapses; mechanisms of action of neuromodulators; neural correlates of sensorimotor behavior and its plasticity.

Anna Francesconi, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter receptor trafficking; the role of lipid rafts in synaptic trafficking and signaling.

David H. Hall, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Correlative fine structure and serial section reconstruction at the electron-microscopic level; morphology of nervous system mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Jean Hébert, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Associate Professor, Department of Genetics. Genetic and molecular mechanisms required for neural stem and progenitor cells to generate the forebrain in development, and regenerate it in adulthood.

Dumitru Andrei Iacobas, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Comparative genomics and mathematical modelling of intercellular signaling in normal, transgenic and diseased nervous structures.

Bryen Jordan, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Exploring synaptic function and activity-dependent synapse-to-nucleus signaling.

Kamran Khodakhah, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Dendritic integration and neuronalcomputation; the role of calcium in regulation of excitability and synapticplasticity.

Adam Kohn, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Assistant Professor, Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences. Visual neuroscience; cortical plasticity.

José Luis Peña, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural bases of behavior and Neural coding.

Alberto Pereda, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Modulation in the central nervous system; synaptic plasticity; properties and plasticity of electrical synapses.

Diana Pettit, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Dendritic physiology and modulation of synaptic transmission.

Dominick P. Purpura, Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus, Department of Neuroscience. Dendritic and cortical development.

Eliana Scemes, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Gap junctions and ATP purinerigic receptors are two components mediating calcium signaling in glial cells.

Odelia Schwartz, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Sensory coding; computational neurosciencevelopment of topographic circuits in the cerebellum; pattern formation; mouse molecular genetics; comparative neuroanatomy

David C. Spray, Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Medicine. Biophysics of gap-junction channels; regulation of gap-junction gene expression; membrane trafficking of gap-junction proteins; physiology of gap junctions in neurons and cardiovascular systems.

Elyse S. Sussman, Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Ototrhinolaryngology. Cognitive Neuroscience - evoked potential analysis of cortical activity underlying auditory perception, attention, memory, and speech in children and adults.

Vytautas K. Verselis, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Structure-function studies of gap junction channels; voltage gating, and permeation.

Steven U. Walkley, Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Pathology; Professor, Department of Neurology. Pathobiology and treatment of genetic neurological diseases; cerebral cortical development; ganglioside function in neurons. 

R. Suzanne Zukin, Professor, Department of Neuroscience. NMDA receptors, AMPA receptors, receptor trafficking, synaptic plasticity, epigenetics, stroke, neuronal death, autism, Fragile X syndrome, Alzheimer's disease.

Brett Abrahams, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and related disorders of human cognition.

Myles Akabas, Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Medicine. Molecular biophysics of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels. GABA-A receptors, general anesthetics, structure, function and pharmacology.

Aviv Bergman, Professor, Department of Systems and Computational Biology; Professor, Department of Pathology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Hannes E. Buelow, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Genetics of nervous system development.

Herman Buschke, Professor, Department of Neurology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Memory and cognition in aging and dementia

Streamson Chua, Professor, Department of Medicine; Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Peter Davies, Professor, Department of Pathology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Molecular and cellular studies of Alzheimer's disease and mouse models.

Scott Emmons, Professor, Department of Genetics; Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Alan Finkelstein, Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Protein translocation associated with the voltage gating of diphtheria toxin, anthrax toxin, and colicin Ia channels.

John Foxe, Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Lloyd Fricker, Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neuropeptides and neuropeptide processing enzymes.

Aristea S Galanopoulou, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology; Associate Professor, Deaprtment of Neuroscience. The role of cation chloride cotransporters and GABA A receptors in seizure susceptibility of the neonatal brain and sexual differentiation of the brain; consequences of neonatal seizures; pathophysiology of Rett syndrome.

Asao Hirano, Professor, Department of Pathology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neuropathology of motor neuron disease.

Noboru Hiroi, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Molecular mechanisms of nicotine addiction and 22q11.2 syndrome.

Zaven Kaprielian, Professor, Department of Pathology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience.  Axon guidance at the midline of the developing central nervous system.

Herbert Lachman, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology); Associate Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience; Associate Professor, Department of Genetics.

Jorge Larocca, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology; Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Alan D. Legatt, Professor, Department of Neurology; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; Assistant Professor of Medicine. Topographic analysis of evoked potentials and identification of evoked potential generators.

Xiabo Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Michael Lipton, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Associate Professor, Neuroscience.

Mark F. Mehler, Professor, Chair, Department of Neurology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Neural stem cell biology; pathogenesis of nervous system diseases; neural regeneration; developmental neuroscience.

Sophie Molholm, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Solomon L. Moshé, Professor, Department of Neurology; Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Developmental and behavioral neurobiology; mechanisms involved in the generation, expression, and modification of seizures with age.

Scott A. Nawy, Professor, Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Synaptic transmission, modulation, and development in the retina.

Genevieve Neal-Perry, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neuroendocrine control of reproduction and reproductive senescence.

Saleem Nicola, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Neural Circuits Underlying Reward-seeking Behavior.

Gary Schwartz, Professor, Department of Medicine; Professor, Department of Neuroscience.

Robert H. Singer, Professor, Co-Chair of Anatomy & Structural Biology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Studying the Birth and Travels of RNA.

Mitchell Steinschneider, Professor, Department of Neurology; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Speech processing in auditory cortex; auditory cortex physiology; evoked-potential analysis of cortical processing mechanisms.

Deyou Zheng, Assistant Professor, Department; Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience. Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics.

 

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