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: Computational 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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| Stephen Baccus | Neural circuits and neural coding; retinal visual processing | CEL, CMP, SYS |
| Kwabena Boahen | Large-scale models of sensory, perceptual and motor systems | CMP, DEV, SYS |
| Axel Brunger | Molecular mechanism of synaptic neurotransmission | CEL, CMP, MOL, NBD |
| Karl Deisseroth | Novel optical tools to probe neural circuits in health and disease | CEL, CMP, EXC, MOL, NBD, SYS |
| Ricardo Dolmetsch | Autism, calcium signaling and developmental biology | CEL, CMP, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Rona Giffard | astrocytes in cerebral ischemia, heat shock proteins | CEL, CMP, DEV, MOL, NBD |
| Gary Glover | fMRI acquisition/analysis, experimental design methods | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Kalanit Grill-Spector | Neural correlates of visual perception; | CMP, SYS |
| John Huguenard | Oscillations/synchronization of neural networks; epilepsy | CEL, CMP, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| David Kingsley | Molecular basis of vertebrate evolution | CMP, DEV, MOL |
| Fei-Fei Li | human vision, high-level visual recognition, computational neuroscienc | CMP, SYS |
| Sean Mackey | Systems neuroscience approaches to human pain research | CMP, EXC, NBD, SYS |
| James McClelland | Dynamical models of decision and learning | CMP, SYS |
| Samuel McClure | reward learning, decision-making, dopamine function | CMP, SYS |
| Vinod Menon | Cognitive, developmental & clinical systems neuroscience, Brain Imagin | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
| Josef Parvizi | Intracranial recordings and stimulations in the human brain | CMP, NBD, SYS |
| Jennifer Raymond | Learning & memory; physiology and molecular mechanisms | CMP, MOL, SYS |
| 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 |
| Mark Schnitzer | In vivo two-photon imaging; cerebellar and hippocampal circuits | CEL, CMP, NBD, SYS |
| Krishna Shenoy | Computational motor neurophysiology, neural prostheses | CMP, SYS |
| Patrick Suppes | Mulitvariate analysis of neural signals | CMP, SYS |
| Richard Tsien | Synaptic function, spiking & computation in memory circuits | CEL, CMP, DEV, EXC, MOL, NBD |
| Brian Wandell | Visual perception, reading development, fMRI, DTI | CMP, DEV, NBD, SYS |
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