PhD Program Faculty
Our faculty comprises 97 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 (62) CMP: Computational (21) DEV: Developmental (40) EXC: Membrane Excitability (23) | MOL: Molecular (57) NBD: Neurobiology of Disease (54) SYS: Systems/Cognitive (47) ALL: Complete List (97) |
| 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 | ||
| Anne Brunet | Molecular mechanisms of aging in the nervous system | CEL, 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 |
| 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 | High level vision; Neural correlates of visual perception; | CMP, SYS |
| James Gross | Emotion regulation in healthy and clinical populations | SYS |
| Craig Heller | Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, and thermoregulation. | CEL, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Stefan Heller. | Inner ear development, cellular function, and regeneration | CEL, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Shaul Hestrin | Neocortical microcircuits | 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, DEV, 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 | molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases | CEL, MOL, NBD |
| Richard Lewis | Calcium signaling by ion channels and cellular organelles | CEL, EXC, 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 |
| 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 | Models of memory, language, and cognitive development | CMP, SYS |
| Samuel McClure | reward learning, decision-making, dopamine function | CMP, SYS |
| Susan McConnell | Fate determination and migration in mammalian CNS | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| Jack McMahan | Synaptic transmission and synapse formation | 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 |
| William Mobley | Growth factors in development of the nervous system; developmental dis | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| 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 | Epilepsy & stereotyped behavior, thought & emotion | NBD, SYS |
| Anna Penn | The role of placental factors in brain development | CEL, DEV, MOL |
| 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 |
| Terence Sanger | Childhood movement disorders, neural networks, basal ganglia function | SYS |
| 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, 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 | Secretion of neurotransmitters at synapses | CEL, MOL |
| 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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