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

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

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

Feliksas Bukauskas, Professor: Gap junction channel formation and gating.

Reed Carroll, Associate Professor: Molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticty.

Pablo Castillo, Associate Professor: 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: Novel approaches to treatment of diseases affecting the CNS; microglial biology: lineage, secretion, receptor systems, and interactions with neurons.

Anne M. Etgen, Professor: 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: 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: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter receptor trafficking; the role of lipid rafts in synaptic trafficking and signaling.

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

Jean Hébert, Associate Professor: 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: Comparative genomics and mathematical modelling of intercellular signaling in normal, transgenic and diseased nervous structures.

Bryen Jordan, Assistant Professor: Exploring synaptic function and activity-dependent synapse-to-nucleus signaling.

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

Adam Kohn, Assistant Professor: Visual neuroscience; cortical plasticity.

José Luis Peña, Assistant Professor: Neural bases of behavior and Neural coding.

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

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

Dominick P. Purpura, Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus: Dendritic and cortical development.

Eliana Scemes, Associate Professor:

Odelia Schwartz, Assistant Professor: Sensory coding; computational neuroscience

Roy Sillitoe, Assistant Professor: Development of topographic circuits in the cerebellum; pattern formation; mouse molecular genetics; comparative neuroanatomy

David C. Spray, Professor: 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, Associate Professor: Cognitive Neuroscience - evoked potential analysis of cortical activity underlying auditory perception, attention, memory, and speech in children and adults.

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

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

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

Myles Akabas, Professor: Molecular biophysics of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels. GABA-A receptors, general anesthetics, structure, function and pharmacology.

Aviv Bergman, Professor: Systems and Computational Biology/Neuroscience

Celia Brosnan, Professor: Molecular Neuroimmunology

Hannes E. Buelow, Assistant Professor: Genetics of nervous system development

Herman Buschke, Professor: Memory and cognition in aging and dementia

Streamson Chua, Professor

Scott Emmons, Professor

Peter Davies, Professor: Molecular and cellular studies of Alzheimer's disease and mouse models.

Alan Finkelstein, Professor: Protein translocation associated with the voltage gating of diphtheria toxin, anthrax toxin, and colicin Ia channels.

Lloyd Fricker, Assistant Professor: Neuropeptides and neuropeptide processing enzymes

Aristea S Galanopoulou, Assistant Professor: 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: Neuropathology of motor neuron disease.

Noboru Hiroi, Associate Professor: Molecular mechanisms of substance abuse and movement disorders.

Zaven Kaprielian, Professor:  Axon guidance at the midline of the developing central nervous system.

Jorge Larocca

Alan D. Legatt, Assistant Professor: Topographic analysis of evoked potentials and identification of evoked potential generators.

Xiabu Li, Assistant Professor

Michael Lipton, Associate Professor

Mark F. Mehler, Professor, Chair of Neurology: Neural stem cell biology; pathogenesis of nervous system diseases; neural regeneration; developmental neuroscience.

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

Scott A. Nawy, Associate Professor: Synaptic transmission, modulation, and development in the retina.

Genevieve Neal-Perry, Assistant Professor: Neuroendocrine control of reproduction and reproductive senescence.

Saleem Nicola, Assistant Professor: Neural Circuits Underlying Reward-seeking Behavior.

Cedric Raine, Professor:  Neuropathology and molecular neuroimmunology of Multiple Sclerosis and related autoimmune diseases of myelin.

Gary Schwartz, Professor:

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

Mitchell Steinschneider, Professor: Speech processing in auditory cortex; auditory cortex physiology; evoked-potential analysis of cortical processing mechanisms.

Libor Velisek, Associate Professor: Regulation of in vitro seizures by the extracellular environment; role of prenatal nerve growth factors in postnatal seizure susceptibility.

Jana Veliskova, Assistant Professor: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of seizure-induced damage; hormonal regulation of seizure control; neuroprotective effects of sex hormones; estrogen-neuropeptide interaction; sex hormones and GABAergic neurotransmission.

Deyou Zheng, Assistant Professor, Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics - Primary appointment, Neurology; Secondary, Genetics and Neuroscience

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