Neuroscience
Select a specialty below for links to researchers in these areas.
Learning and memory, synaptic plasticity, neural circuits and behavior
Jack Byrne – Learning and memory, computational modeling
Pramod Dash – formation and impairment of memory
Kartik Venkatachalam – Vision research, synaptic vesicle dynamics, neurotransmitter exocytosis
Michael Beierlein – Synaptic plasticity, optogenetics, thalamocortical system
Fabricio Do Monte – neural circuits, memories, behaviorRuth Heidelberger
David Marshak – Vision research, neural circuits
Neal Waxham – Synaptic plasticity, calcium signaling
Computational Neuroscience
Jack Byrne – Learning and memory, computational modeling
Yin Liu – Bioinformatics, complex biological networks
Harel Shouval – Learning and memory, computational approaches
Neurochemistry, Brain Biochemistry, and pain
Synapses, ion channels, autophagy
Vasanthi Jayaraman – Neurotransmitter receptors, ion channels
Neal Waxham – Synaptic plasticity, calcium signaling
Andrea Stavoe – Autophagy, neuronal aging and degeneration
Irina Serysheva – Calcium signaling, ion channels, cryo-EM/ET
Sensory receptors, pain and behavior
Carmen Dessauer – cAMP signaling, cardiac function, chronic pain
Edgar T. Walters – Nociceptor memory, chronic pain, spinal cord injury
Michael Zhu – Calcium signaling, ion channels, two pore channels
Julio Cordero-Morales – Sensory receptors, ion channels, behavior
Valeria Vasquez – Mechanosensitive ion channels, dietary lipids
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Karan Ma – Neuron-glial interactions, cognitive impairment
Nicholas Justice – Corticotrophin releasing factor, Alzheimer’s disease
Zeng Chen – Chronobiology and medicine, aging
Claudio Soto – Protein misfolding, prion disease, Alzheimer’s
Sheng Zhang – Neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s
Rodrigo Morales – Protein misfolding, prion disease, Alzheimer’s
Andrea Stavoe – Autophagy, neuronal aging and degeneration
Kevin Morano – Protein chaperones, heat shock response
Ambro van Hoof – Exosome mediated mRNA degradation
Irina Serysheva – Calcium signaling, ion channels, cryo-EM/ET
Wenbo Li – Genomics, epigenomics, enhancer RNA, gene regulation
Andrew Pickering – Alzheimer’s disease, proteasome, mitochondria
Diseases and Disorders of the CNS
Cerebral Vascular Disease and Stroke
Miriam Fornage – Stroke, angiogenesis, atherosclerosis
Louise McCullough – Cerebral vascular disease, stroke
Jaroslaw Aronowski – Ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage
Sean Savitz – Stem cell therapy for stroke
Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
Jiaqian Wu – Spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative diseases
Pramod Dash – formation and impairment of memory
Headache, Chronobiology and Behavior
Seung-Hee Yoo – Chronobiology, disease, cluster headache
Zheng Chen – Chronobiology and medicine, aging
Kristin Eckel Mahan – Circadian rhythm in health and disease
Mark Burish – Headache and facial pain, chronobiology
Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences
Jair Soares – Mood disorders, neuroimaging, psychopharmacology
Scott Lane – Substance abuse, neuroimaging, psychopharmacology
Consuelo Walss-Bass – Psychiatric genetics, mood disorders
Gabriel Fries – Genetics and epigenetics of psychiatric disorders
Tatiana Barichello – Neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation
Anilkumar Pillai – Chronic stress, inflammation, neurotropins, schizophrenia
Mohamed Milad – Neuromodulation, fear extinction, trauma
Eliott Hong – Neuroimaging, genetics, brain stimulation, schizophrenia
Peter Kochunov – Neuroimaging, cerebral aging, quantitative MRI
Wen Li – Anxiety disorders, cognition, emotion, neural interventions
Vision Research, Vision Restoration
Ruth Heidelberger – Vision research, synaptic vesicle dynamics, neurotransmitter exocytosis
John Spudich – Photosensory signal transduction, optogenetics
David Marshak – Vision research, neural circuits
Kartik Venkatachalam – Vision research, synaptic vesicle dynamics, neurotransmitter exocytosis