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 Dashformation and impairment of memory
Kartik Venkatachalam – Vision research, synaptic vesicle dynamics, neurotransmitter exocytosis
Michael BeierleinSynaptic plasticity, optogenetics, thalamocortical system
Fabricio Do Monteneural circuits, memories, behaviorRuth Heidelberger
David MarshakVision research, neural circuits
Neal WaxhamSynaptic plasticity, calcium signaling

Computational Neuroscience

Jack Byrne – Learning and memory, computational modeling
Yin LiuBioinformatics, complex biological networks
Harel ShouvalLearning and memory, computational approaches

Neurochemistry, Brain Biochemistry, and pain

Synapses, ion channels, autophagy

Vasanthi Jayaraman – Neurotransmitter receptors, ion channels
Neal WaxhamSynaptic plasticity, calcium signaling
Andrea StavoeAutophagy, 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. WaltersNociceptor memory, chronic pain, spinal cord injury
Michael ZhuCalcium signaling, ion channels, two pore channels
Julio Cordero-Morales – Sensory receptors, ion channels, behavior
Valeria Vasquez – Mechanosensitive ion channels, dietary lipids

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Karan MaNeuron-glial interactions, cognitive impairment
Nicholas JusticeCorticotrophin releasing factor, Alzheimer’s disease
Zeng ChenChronobiology 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 StavoeAutophagy, 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 Dashformation and impairment of memory

Headache, Chronobiology and Behavior

Seung-Hee YooChronobiology, disease, cluster headache
Zheng ChenChronobiology and medicine, aging
Kristin Eckel Mahan – Circadian rhythm in health and disease
Mark BurishHeadache 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 HeidelbergerVision research, synaptic vesicle dynamics, neurotransmitter exocytosis
John Spudich – Photosensory signal transduction, optogenetics
David MarshakVision research, neural circuits
Kartik Venkatachalam Vision research, synaptic vesicle dynamics, neurotransmitter exocytosis