PhD Program Faculty
Our faculty comprises 103 highly distinguished scientists who have made fundamental discoveries in all areas of neuroscience from molecules to cognition. They have international reputations for excellence in both research and teaching.
Faculty Research Interests Detailed listing
The major research interests of faculty in the Program can be divided into seven research areas/approaches with considerable overlap. Every fundamental area of neuroscience is represented in our faculty. The complementary nature of their expertise and interests creates an unusually rich intellectual community.
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CEL: Cellular (61) CMP: Computational (24) DEV: Developmental (40) EXC: Membrane Excitability (24) | MOL: Molecular (57) NBD: Neurobiology of Disease (58) SYS: Systems/Cognitive (52) ALL: Complete List (103) |
| Name | Interests | Themes |
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| Katrin Andreasson | Mechanisms of neurodegeneration | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| Stephen Baccus | Neural circuits and neural coding; retinal visual processing | CEL, CMP, SYS |
| Bruce Baker | Control of sexual differentiation, including behavior | CEL, DEV, SYS |
| Ben Barres | Neuron-glial interactions in the developing and regenerating CNS | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Helen Blau | Cell fate plasticity, stem cell biology, gene ther, CNS repair | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| Kwabena Boahen | Large-scale models of sensory, perceptual and motor systems | CMP, DEV, SYS |
| Lera Boroditsky | Interactions btw language, cognition and perception; plasticity | DEV, SYS |
| Helen Bronte-Stewart | Human motor control; movement disorders | |
| Anne Brunet | Molecular mechanisms of aging in the nervous system | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Axel Brunger | Molecular mechanism of synaptic neurotransmission | CEL, CMP, MOL, NBD |
| Paul Buckmaster | Hippocampal circuitry, mechanisms of temporal lobe epilepsy | CEL, EXC, NBD, SYS |
| Marion Buckwalter | Neuroinflammation, stroke, functional recovery | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| Pak Chan | Mechanisms of cell death in stroke and CNS | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| Thomas Clandinin | Genetic approaches to neurodevelopment and behavior | CEL, DEV, MOL, SYS |
| Corinna Darian-Smith | Reorganisation after injury in adult sensorimotor pathways. | CEL, NBD, SYS |
| Luis de Lecea | Molecular biology of sleep and arousal | MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Karl Deisseroth | Novel optical tools to probe neural circuits in health and disease | CEL, CMP, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Scott Delp | Experimental, computational approaches to study human movement | |
| Firdaus Dhabhar | Stress effects on immune function: The good, bad, & beautiful | CEL, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Ricardo Dolmetsch | Autism, calcium signaling and developmental biology | CEL, CMP, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Heidi Feldman | Language and cognition after early neural injuries | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Russell Fernald | How social behavior influences the brain | CEL, DEV, MOL, SYS |
| Robert Fisher | Clinical Epilepsy, EEG, Brain Stimulation, Drug Delivery, Absence | CEL, NBD |
| Craig Garner | Cellular mechanisms underlying synapse formation in the developing CNS | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| Rona Giffard | astrocytes in cerebral ischemia, heat shock proteins | CEL, CMP, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| William Gilly | Ion channels in excitable cells; Motor control/behavior in Cephalopods | CEL, EXC, MOL |
| Gary Glover | fMRI acquisition/analysis, experimental design methods | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Miriam Goodman | Sensory transduction, sensorimotor integration in C. elegans | CEL, EXC, MOL |
| Ian Gotlib | Neural, cognitive, and genetic factors in depression in children and a | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Isabella Graef | signaling and transcription in neural development | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Michael Greicius | Functional connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders, fMRI/DTI | NBD, SYS |
| Kalanit Grill-Spector | Neural correlates of visual perception; | CMP, SYS |
| James Gross | Emotion regulation in healthy and clinical populations | SYS |
| May Han | Multiple sclerosis | NBD |
| Craig Heller | Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, and thermoregulation. | CEL, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Stefan Heller. | Inner ear development/regeneration, sensory hair cell function, TRPs | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Shaul Hestrin | Neocortical Circuits | CEL, EXC, MOL |
| Ting-Ting Huang | The role of oxygen free radicals in oxidative tissue damage and neurod | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| John Huguenard | Oscillations/synchronization of neural networks; epilepsy | CEL, CMP, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Terence Ketter | Brain imaging and studies of emotion, mood, and temperament | NBD |
| David Kingsley | Molecular basis of vertebrate evolution | CMP, DEV, MOL |
| Eric Knudsen | Mechanisms of attention | CEL, DEV, SYS |
| Brian Knutson | Neural basis of emotion, applied to mental health and decision making | NBD, SYS |
| Brian Kobilka | Structural basis for G protein coupled receptor function | CEL, MOL |
| Ron Kopito | Protein quality control. Molecular genetics and cell biology of neuro | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| Richard Lewis | Calcium signaling by ion channels and cellular organelles | CEL, EXC, MOL |
| Fei-Fei Li | human vision, high-level visual recognition, computational neuroscienc | CMP, SYS |
| Joyce Liao | Ischemic optic neuropathy, Stem cell transplantation, Vision electroph | NBD, SYS |
| Michael Lin | Signaling pathways regulating protein synthesis in synaptic plasticity | CEL, MOL |
| Frank Longo | Alzheimer's disease, small molecules growth factor ligands | MOL, NBD |
| Bingwei Lu | Neural stem cell biology and neurodegeneration | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Liqun Luo | Development, organization and function of neuronal circuits | CEL, DEV, MOL, SYS |
| David Lyons | ||
| Bruce MacIver | Neuropharmacology of CNS depressants and drugs of abuse | CEL, EXC, MOL, SYS |
| Sean Mackey | Systems neuroscience approaches to human pain research | CMP, EXC, NBD, SYS |
| Daniel Madison | Synaptic plasticity and modulation of neuronal excitability. | CEL, EXC, SYS |
| Merritt Maduke | Molecular mechanisms of chloride channels and transporters | EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Robert Malenka | synaptic plasticity | CEL, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| James McClelland | Dynamical models of decision and learning | CMP, SYS |
| Samuel McClure | reward learning, decision-making, dopamine function | CMP, SYS |
| Susan McConnell | Fate determination and migration in mammalian CNS | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| Vinod Menon | Cognitive, developmental & clinical systems neuroscience, Brain Imagin | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Tobias Meyer | Neuronal Signal Transduction | CEL, EXC, MOL |
| Emmanuel Mignot | Neurobiology and genetics of sleep and narcolepsy | DEV, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Daria Mochly-Rosen | Mechanism of protein kinase C-mediated signal transduction in disease | |
| Tirin Moore | Visuomotor integration, visual perception and cognition | NBD, SYS |
| William Newsome | Neural basis of visual perception and visually guided cognition | SYS |
| Theo Palmer | Neural stem cells and inflammation | CEL |
| Karen Parker | Oxytocin and social behavior; stress and HPA axis physiology | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Josef Parvizi | Intracranial recordings and stimulations in the human brain | CMP, NBD, SYS |
| Anna Penn | The role of placental factors in brain development | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| Kathleen Poston | ||
| David Prince | Altered properties of neurons/synapses in models of epilepsy | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Thomas Rando | Molecular mechanisms of stem cell fate determination | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Natalie Rasgon | ||
| Jennifer Raymond | Learning & memory; physiology and molecular mechanisms | CMP, MOL, SYS |
| Lawrence Recht | stem cells and cancer | NBD |
| Richard Reimer | Neurotransmitter synthesis and packaging | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| Allan Reiss | Interdisciplinary research, multimodal imaging, brain disorder | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Anthony Ricci | Auditory hair cell mechanotransduction and synaptic transmissio | CEL, CMP, DEV, EXC, MOL |
| Robert Sapolsky | Neuron death, stress, gene therapy | CEL, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Mark Schnitzer | In vivo two-photon imaging; cerebellar and hippocampal circuits | CEL, CMP, NBD, SYS |
| Matthew Scott | Cerebellum development and cancer, neural control of growth | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Carla Shatz | molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent circuit formation | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, SYS |
| Kang Shen | moleular mechanisms of circuit assembly at the level of synapse | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| Krishna Shenoy | Computational motor neurophysiology, neural prostheses | CMP, SYS |
| Stephen Smith | Assembly and Plasticity of Neural Circuits | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Raymond Sobel | Neuropathology, neuroimmunology, myelin, multiple sclerosis | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Gary Steinberg | Pathophysiology and treatment of focal and global cerebral ischemia | CEL, MOL, SYS |
| Lawrence Steinman | Genetic basis of autoimmune neural disease | CEL, MOL |
| Thomas Sudhof | Formation, function, and dysfunction of synapses | CEL, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Edith Sullivan | Neuroimaging and neuropsychology in aging and disease | DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Patrick Suppes | Mulitvariate analysis of neural signals | CMP, SYS |
| Stuart Thompson | Signal transduction mechanisms; biophysics of ion channels | CEL, EXC, MOL |
| Richard Tsien | Synaptic function, spiking & computation in memory circuits | CEL, CMP, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Anthony Wagner | Neural basis of memory and executive function | NBD, SYS |
| Brian Wandell | Visual perception, reading development, fMRI, DTI | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Marius Wernig | Reprogramming, iPS cells, Neural Stem Cells, Glioblastoma | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Jeffrey Wine | Pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis: ion transport | CEL, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Tony Wyss-Coray | Molecular basis of neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease | CEL, NBD |
| Yanmin Yang | Cytoskeletal function and dysfunction in the nervous system | CEL, MOL |
| David Yeomans | Pain: differential activation; gene therapy; sodium channels | EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Jamie Zeitzer | Neurobio of sleep and circadian photoreception | NBD, SYS |
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